[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] QEMU - provide e820 reserve through qemu_cfg

[Jes Sorensen]

On 01/25/10 21:14, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/25/2010 02:04 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > Yes, sounds good. Should be fairly extensible then. What about memory
> > holes? Do we need to take care of them?
>
> It would be nice for QEMU to be able to add additional e820 regions that
> don't necessarily fit the standard layout model.
>
> For instance, I've thought a number of times about using a large
> reserved region as a shared memory mechanism.
>
> But we certainly need to allow the BIOS to define the regions it needs
> to know about.

I think it should be easy to accommodate using the scheme I am
suggesting. It would require some basic testing for conflicts in the
BIOS, but otherwise it should pretty much allow you to specify any
region you want as a reserved block.

Only problem is that we don't really have a way to pass back info
saying 'you messed up trying to pinch an area that the BIOS wants
for itself'.

I'll take a look at it.

Cheers,
Jes