[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] Minimum RAM size for PC machines?

Igor Mammedov imammedo at redhat.com
Wed Mar 22 13:25:49 CET 2017


On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:03:44 +0100
Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 22.03.2017 10:08, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> [...]
> > Are we now ready to accept a simple & stupid patch that actually helps
> > users, say letting boards that care declare minimum and maximum RAM
> > size?  And make PC reject RAM size less than 1MiB, even though "someone"
> > might conceivably have firmware that works with less?  
> 
> I'd say enforce a minimum RAM size on the normal "pc" and "q35" machine,
> but still allow smaller sizes on the "isapc" machine. So if "someone"
> comes around and claims to have a legacy firmware that wants less memory
> than 1MiB, just point them to the isapc machine.
> Just my 0.02 €.
We can print warning that minimum size will be enforced in 1-2 releases since 2.9/10
and when it's enforced send users that need less to an old qemu version.

>  Thomas
> 
> 




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