[SeaBIOS] How much RAM is required?

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Fri Aug 10 16:24:55 CEST 2012


Fred . wrote:
> No, I am not.

Ok, so there's only a hypothesis.


> But I believe QEMU does have the functionality to load an arbitrary
> firmware. So the firmware doesn't necessarily have to be SeaBIOS.

As you may know the 8086 reset vector is at 1MB-16 so it will be
really difficult to run a PC-like machine with less than 1MB of
memory. I don't believe one has ever existed.


> Don't know if its possible to make QEMU use an UEFI or OpenFirmware
> image instead, or if such an image exists.

Sure, but UEFI rather requires 1GB than 1MB.


//Peter



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