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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.3 development update



On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:04 PM, George Dunlap
> <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > * qemu-upstream MMIO hole issue
> >  > http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-03/msg00559.html
> >  > "You can reproduce it when a VM has a big pci hole size (such as
> >    512MB), e.g. create a VM with a virtual device which has a 512MB
> >    pci BAR."
> >  priority: high
> >  status: Original fix broken; investigating proper fix
> >  priority: blocker (?)
> 
> Any chance someone could spend a bit of time digging into SeaBIOS /
> qemu to see if:
> 1. SeaBIOS has any logic for querying the PCI space and changing the
> size of the PCI hole
> 2. If SeaBIOS can do this when running on qemu, and if so, why it's not 
> working?

AFAICT SeaBIOS is going to use the address space between
BUILD_PCIMEM_START (0xe0000000) and BUILD_PCIMEM_END (0xfec00000) as PCI
hole, when it runs out, it is going to return error.

See src/pciinit.c:pci_setup

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