[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] SeaBIOS/Xen: Compute the low RAM memory size in the BDA according to the e820
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 01:23:41PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote: > On 14/11/2011 08:53, "Keir Fraser" <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 14/11/2011 03:36, "Kevin O'Connor" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On Xen, the PCI init code isn't used, so assuming this struct doesn't > >> need to live in real "ram", I think it could live just about anywhere > >> past the end of ram. Even with pciinit.c, addresses over 0xfc00000 Oops - that should have read 0xfec00000. > >> (with the exception of a few bytes for hpet, apic, ioapic, and bios > >> image) could be used. > > > > I suggest we stick it at FC000000, and shift hvmloader's mem_alloc() Since Xen lays out the PCI space (and assuming it wont put a PCI device at that address) that should be fine. > > starting address up by one page to FC001000. The acpi build code will have > > to manually mem_hole_populate_ram() that one page before writing to it. This > > can then be documented in hvmloader/config.h which contains a description > > of, and defines for, the system memory map. This is by far the easiest > > solution to this problem; manually crafting an SSDT is a right pain in the > > arse, whereas this is maybe a 5-line patch. > > Like the attached patch (untested), which is a bit larger than anticipated, > but actually allows code to be net deleted. :-) -Kevin _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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