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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Bug 1180923 <1180923@bugs.launchpad.net>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, TC1988 <panie@tiscali.it>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1180923] [NEW] unused memory filled with 0x00 instead of 0xFF
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 21:52:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSP0QUWf8RVrGtcajoq_pPrHaPMU+U4uk-Lw4Kh8KwiYCMbEQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51953162.3000107@redhat.com>

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> Il 16/05/2013 19:34, TC1988 ha scritto:
>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> Qemu, ever since it was made (so, since 2003), has this problem in DOS
>> (either PC-DOS or MS-DOS and partly Windows 9x) not recognizing the
>> memory available when the memory is filled with 0x00 but when it is
>> filled with 0xFF it gets recognized properly, where should I patch qemu
>> to solve this memory problem?
>
> Can you provide reproduction instructions for this bug?

Sounds like (risky) memory probing.  On a PC the memory regions that
are unpopulated produce 0xff.

But you're supposed to use e820 or other mechanisms to retrieve the
proper memory layout from the firmware.

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-16 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-16 17:34 [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1180923] [NEW] unused memory filled with 0x00 instead of 0xFF TC1988
2013-05-16 17:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1180923] " TC1988
2013-05-16 17:45 ` Battler
2013-05-16 19:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1180923] [NEW] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-16 19:52   ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2013-05-16 20:00     ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-17  7:25       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-17 15:59         ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-21  1:31           ` Kevin O'Connor
2013-05-16 19:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1180923] " Battler
2013-05-17 14:26 ` Battler
2013-05-17 14:36 ` Battler
2013-05-17 16:43 ` Battler
2020-08-07  9:25 ` Thomas Huth
2020-10-07  4:17 ` Launchpad Bug Tracker
2022-07-31 20:59 ` David Glover
2022-08-01  6:29   ` 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo)
2022-08-01  6:29     ` Yonggang Luo
2022-08-01  6:30 ` Yonggang Luo
2023-06-12 21:57 ` Evren

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