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