[SeaBIOS] How much RAM is required?

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 01:50:13PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Watch this:
> 
>     $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -vnc :0 -monitor stdio -m 16k
>     QEMU 1.1.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
>     (qemu) qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0x0000000000004000
> 
> Admittedly a silly thing to try.  I don't really expect SeaBIOS to work
> with 16KiB of RAM.  But I'm curious: how much does it require?

SeaBIOS requires a minimum of 1Meg of ram.  I didn't even know one
could request less than 1meg of ram from QEMU.

-Kevin