On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 08:52:19PM +0800, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
Kevin O'Connor wrote:
I've also noticed this patch increases the seabios build size by 18K. This isn't great because it is 18K that then can't be used by option roms, and it brings seabios very close to its current 128K limit (124K when full debugging enabled).
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Can the limitation 128K be increased?
Now that qemu doesn't directly place option roms in the c/d segments, it can probably be increased to 256K. I don't know if qemu changes would be needed (it doesn't seem like it). Expanding beyond 256K would be a bit of work.
The limit due to option roms is more restrictive. The rom space (at least on FC13) for vgabios, e1000 gpxe, and vapic comes to 116.5KiB - add another 8KiB for additional gpxe roms and we're basically back to the 128KiB limit.
-Kevin
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Kevin O'Connor