[SeaBIOS] placement of emulated flash [was: seabios Improved multi-platform support]

Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk
Wed Feb 20 18:18:18 CET 2013


On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 17:55 +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> However in OVMF the RESERVED_MEMBASE range is not parsed from this
> Xen-exported table, it is added manually in InitializeXen()
> [OvmfPkg/PlatformPei/Xen.c]:
> 
>   //
>   // Reserve away HVMLOADER reserved memory [0xFC000000,0xFD000000).
>   // This needs to match HVMLOADER RESERVED_MEMBASE/RESERVED_MEMSIZE.
>   //
>   AddReservedMemoryBaseSizeHob (0xFC000000, 0x1000000);

ICK, it would be far preferable for OVMF to do what SeaBIOS does and
actually "communicate" with hvmloader IMHO.

Ian.

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