"Fred ." <eldman...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >> "Kevin O'Connor" <ke...@koconnor.net> writes: >> >>> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 01:50:13PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>>> Watch this: >>>> >>>> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -vnc :0 -monitor stdio -m 16k >>>> QEMU 1.1.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information >>>> (qemu) qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at >>>> 0x0000000000004000 >>>> >>>> Admittedly a silly thing to try. I don't really expect SeaBIOS to work >>>> with 16KiB of RAM. But I'm curious: how much does it require? >>> >>> SeaBIOS requires a minimum of 1Meg of ram. I didn't even know one >>> could request less than 1meg of ram from QEMU. >> >> I'll cook up a QEMU patch to give it at least that much.
> But QEMU may use other firmware/payload than SeaBIOS which might > require less than 1 MB of RAM. Good point. Could SeaBIOS fail more cleanly when it detects insufficient RAM? _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios