Some machines also have broken memory modules. So some computers have 0 byte RAM in that case. :D
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > Frediano Ziglio <frediano.zig...@citrix.com> writes: > >> On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 16:24 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: >>> Fred . wrote: >>> > No, I am not. >>> >>> Ok, so there's only a hypothesis. >>> >>> >>> > But I believe QEMU does have the functionality to load an arbitrary >>> > firmware. So the firmware doesn't necessarily have to be SeaBIOS. >>> >>> As you may know the 8086 reset vector is at 1MB-16 so it will be >>> really difficult to run a PC-like machine with less than 1MB of >>> memory. I don't believe one has ever existed. >>> >> >> I remember that my manual of the NEC V20 (a 8086 clone with 10 MHZ!) has >> settings for 256KB of RAM (jumpers of course!) >> >> The ROM was "mapped" (physically!) at f0000 with extended ROM at e0000. > > According to Wikipedia, the original IBM PC was sold with as little as > 16KiB RAM. IIRC, 64KiB BIOS ROM at the top of the 1MiB address space. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC > > [...] > > _______________________________________________ > SeaBIOS mailing list > SeaBIOS@seabios.org > http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios