[SeaBIOS] How much RAM is required?

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Fri Aug 10 16:17:59 CEST 2012


Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >>> SeaBIOS requires a minimum of 1Meg of ram.  I didn't even know one
> >>> could request less than 1meg of ram from QEMU.
> >>
> >> I'll cook up a QEMU patch to give it at least that much.
> 
> > But QEMU may use other firmware/payload than SeaBIOS which might
> > require less than 1 MB of RAM.
> 
> Good point.

I disagree actually. It is not an invalid point, but please optimize
for the common case and let's deal with microscopic corner cases if
they actually happen.


> Could SeaBIOS fail more cleanly when it detects insufficient RAM?

What would you propose?


//Peter



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