[SeaBIOS] How much RAM is required?
Kevin O'Connor
kevin at koconnor.net
Mon Aug 13 02:44:24 CEST 2012
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 04:54:06PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> writes:
> > Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >> Could SeaBIOS fail more cleanly when it detects insufficient RAM?
> >
> > What would you propose?
>
> Fail POST with panic("Not enough RAM")?
The amount of memory is communicated from QEMU to SeaBIOS via nvram
variables. As far as I know, those variables can only communicate ram
sizes in 1meg chunks - so there is no way to communicate (and/or
detect) a ramsize of under 1 meg.
-Kevin
More information about the SeaBIOS
mailing list