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From: Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
Subject: Re: AMD GPU passthrough in Xen
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:05:41 +0100
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On 09/22/2014 03:31 PM, Peter Kay wrote:
>
>
> On 22 September 2014 13:38:28 BST, Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it> wrote:
>
>> Another interesting question/aspect would be qemu-traditional (with
>> rombios) or
>> "upstream" (with seabios) ?
> Point, although I didn't think this was generally an option in 4.2?
>
> Certainly I've found upstream to be functional (using a Quadro), but a less stable domU overall

Do you happen to know if the recent KVM/QEMU provides a feature to limit 
the amount of memory below 4GB to assign to the guest? Or provide a 
custom e820 map? To work around a hardware bug I have to somehow make 
sure that everything between 2.5GB and 4GB is reserved and untouchable.

Gordan