[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/2] use new etc/e820 fw_cfg file for ram detection

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Sat Nov 16 06:35:22 CET 2013


On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:39:03AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> qemu got a new fw_cfg file named "etc/e820" carrying e820 ram regions
> and reservations.  This little patch series makes seabios use it if
> present.  It also moves qemu e820 initialization into its own function.

How does this series work when setting ram under 4gig?  Seabios
configures it's malloc zones before it reads the e820 table, so
doesn't that make this difficult?

-Kevin



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