Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v5 86/86] 440fx: fix PAM, PCI holes

[Avi Kivity]

On 07/25/2011 04:47 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 07/25/2011 08:38 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 07/25/2011 04:35 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > >
> > > > That's the ISA TOM (15MB hole and friends).
> > > >
> > > Correct. What about:
> > > 3.2.19. DRB[0:7] DRAM ROW BOUNDARY REGISTERS
> > >
> > > from 440fx spec?
> >
> > Maybe. But we can't use that, since it ignores address line 31.
> >
> > (440fx supports only 1GB RAM, and we're ignoring that)
>
> What are we trying to do?
>
> Can't we just register highest RAM address under 4G to 4G as PCI 
> memory and call it a day?
>
> Do we really need a guest visible register to do this?

Why not use 3.5GB and call it a day?  It's safer for memory hotplug, if 
we ever get it.

The guest will never put a PCI BAR below that anyway.

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