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Re: [Qemu-devel] Minimum RAM size for PC machines?
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Thomas Huth |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Minimum RAM size for PC machines? |
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Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:03:44 +0100 |
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On 22.03.2017 10:08, Markus Armbruster wrote:
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> 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