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Re: [Qemu-devel] Minimum RAM size for PC machines?
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David Hildenbrand |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Minimum RAM size for PC machines? |
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Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:19:00 +0100 |
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On 22.03.2017 11:03, Thomas Huth 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 €.
>
> Thomas
Or maybe simply warn the user that things may go wrong instead of
enforcing it.
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Thanks,
David