On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:24:28AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 08:54:35AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > On 08/04/2010 01:06 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > >On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:24:41PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > >>Why do we need to transfer roms? These are devices on the memory > > >>bus or pci bus, it just needs to be there at the right address. > > >>Boot splash should just be another rom as it would be on a real > > >>system. > > >Just like the initrd? > > > > There isn't enough address space for a 100MB initrd in ROM. > > Because of limits of the original PC, sure, where you had to fit > everything in 0xa0000-0xfffff or whatever it was. > > But this isn't a real PC. > In what way it is not? > You can map the read-only memory anywhere you want. > You can't. Guests expects certain memory layouts. -- Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
