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. -- Thanks, David