Re: [Qemu-devel] Minimum RAM size for PC machines?

2017-03-23 Thread David Hildenbrand
On 23.03.2017 09:19, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Mi, 2017-03-22 at 11:19 +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] Minimum RAM size for PC machines?

2017-03-23 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Mi, 2017-03-22 at 11:19 +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] Minimum RAM size for PC machines?

2017-03-22 Thread Igor Mammedov
On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:03:44 +0100 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] Minimum RAM size for PC machines?

2017-03-22 Thread David Hildenbrand
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,

Re: [Qemu-devel] Minimum RAM size for PC machines?

2017-03-22 Thread Thomas Huth
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

[Qemu-devel] Minimum RAM size for PC machines?

2017-03-22 Thread Markus Armbruster
Last time I checked[1], SeaBIOS required 1MiB of RAM, and the failure modes were mean. Back then, I asked whether we should enforce a suitable minimum RAM size[2]. Peter Maydell replied that modelling RAM constraints involves an expedition into the Generality Swamps, and wished me better luck