On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 07:53:12AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 09/16/2010 08:47 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 07:15:28PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >>This uses a new cmos port at 0x5e that shall read zero to be backwards > >>compatible. > >It looks okay to me. Can you provide an Acked-by from one of the qemu > >or kvm maintainers? > > Is CMOS the best place to communicate this (as opposed to fw_cfg)? > > I know we currently expose memory size via CMOS but perhaps it's > better to switch to a 64-bit fw_cfg value.
I'd personally prefer fw_cfg. Also, another possibility would be to stop sending an absolute max and to instead send a map of memory. The latter would allow for non-contiguous memory. -Kevin
