[SeaBIOS] [RFC PATCH v2 20/21] Implement -dimms, -dimmspop command line options

Avi Kivity avi at redhat.com
Wed Jul 11 16:55:25 CEST 2012


On 07/11/2012 01:32 PM, Vasilis Liaskovitis wrote:
> Implement batch dimm creation command line options. These could be useful for
> not bloating the command line with a large number of dimms.

IMO this is unneeded.  With a management tool there is no problem
generating a long command line; from the command line -dimm will be a
rarely used option.

> 
> syntax: -dimms pfx=poolid,size=sz,num=n
> Will create numdimms dimms with ids poolid0, ..., poolidn-1. Each dimm has a
> size of sz.
>     
> Implement -dimmpop option to populate dimms at bootup
> syntax: -dimmpop pfx=poolid,num=n
> This will populate n dimms with ids poolid0, ..., poolidn-1.
> 
> (live-migration could break here without patch 12/21: -dimmspop
> needs to be reworked to support populating of individual dimms with
> same prefix, and not only a range of dimms starting from 0)
> 

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function





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