Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add 40-48 bit RAM range to seabios

[Anthony Liguori]

On 09/16/2010 08:47 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 07:15:28PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > Subject: add 40-48 bit RAM range to seabios
> >
> > From: Andrea Arcangeli
> >
> > Needed to show>1TB RAM to guests.
> >
> > This uses a new cmos port at 0x5e that shall read zero to be backwards
> > compatible.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli
>
> It looks okay to me.  Can you provide an Acked-by from one of the qemu
> or kvm maintainers?

Is CMOS the best place to communicate this (as opposed to fw_cfg)?

I know we currently expose memory size via CMOS but perhaps it's better 
to switch to a 64-bit fw_cfg value.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
> -Kevin