Re: [SeaBIOS] Fwd Re: [PATCH] move pcibios mem base back to 0xf0000000

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 01:38:40AM +0200, Izik Eidus wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:07:40 -0500
> "Kevin O'Connor"  wrote:
> > I need some background on why the address can't be at the end of
> > memory.  Why can't VBE use a PCI bar like a real device would?
>
> Btw it would be nice to say that I want it to be 0xc000000 for spice
> beacuse spice need much more system memory (specialy for 3d)

0xc0000000?  That would reduce the amount of memory one could have
below the 32bit barrier.  I don't mind reducing it, but it would
require a corresponding change to qemu so that it didn't map memory
there.

-Kevin

Fwd Re: [PATCH] move pcibios mem base back to 0xf0000000

[Izik Eidus]

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:50:50 -0500
"Kevin O'Connor"  wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 01:38:40AM +0200, Izik Eidus wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:07:40 -0500
> > "Kevin O'Connor"  wrote:
> > > I need some background on why the address can't be at the end of
> > > memory.  Why can't VBE use a PCI bar like a real device would?
> >
> > Btw it would be nice to say that I want it to be 0xc000000 for spice
> > beacuse spice need much more system memory (specialy for 3d)
>
> 0xc0000000?  That would reduce the amount of memory one could have
> below the 32bit barrier.  I don't mind reducing it, but it would
> require a corresponding change to qemu so that it didn't map memory
> there.

Yes, but lets wait with this untill we merge spice to upstream :)
> -Kevin