[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] pci: panic when out of bus numbers

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Mon Jan 4 13:19:48 CET 2016


On Mo, 2016-01-04 at 13:43 +0200, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> Currently the bios goes into an endless loop if more than
> 255 PCI buses are requested.

Given the bus number register is 8bit I'm wondering whenever this is a
valid hardware configuration in the first place?

In case it isn't I think qemu should throw an error instead if you try
to create a vm with more than 255 pci busses.

cheers,
  Gerd




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