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

Izik Eidus ieidus at redhat.com
Sun Jan 24 00:59:36 CET 2010


On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:50:50 -0500
"Kevin O'Connor" <kevin at koconnor.net> 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" <kevin at koconnor.net> 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




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