On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:56:08PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 11/02/2009 03:51 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:32:54PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
Is seabios clobbering memory? Gleb/Kevin?
I have not tested with the -kernel option before. I believe you may
be running into the clearing of memory that PMM does - see
malloc_finalize() in src/pmm.c. The PMM spec requires that low
memory
be cleared before starting the boot process.
Likely. Alex, does -kernel use memory below 1MB? Can it be moved
elsewhere?
I've confirmed that commenting out the memset in malloc_finalize()
fixes the reported problem.
Removing the memset is probably okay for the short-term, but it would
contradict the PMM spec, so we'll need some kind of long-term
solution.
Also, SeaBIOS wont clear high-memory, but nothing stops SeaBIOS from
using high memory for scratch space during init.
If not, we probably need a protocol where the option rom loads the
kernel from qemu, rather than qemu poking the kernel into memory.
Yes, I'd prefer to see this. In earlier emails, Gleb made a reference
to a qemu-cfg "stream" interface that is used for acpi tables - maybe
the kernel could be put in one of the streams and the rom could copy
it into ram on boot.