On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:03:44 +0100 Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> 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 €. We can print warning that minimum size will be enforced in 1-2 releases since 2.9/10 and when it's enforced send users that need less to an old qemu version. > Thomas > >