Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: align ram_size to page boundary

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 June 2012 13:43, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
> The boards should make sure that the amount of RAM is feasible with
> the board memory slots. It's not possible to put 256kb SIMMs to a slot
> that expects 1GB DIMMs. We can allow some flexibility there though,
> I'm not sure if the current chipsets would support very much memory if
> we followed the docs to the letter.

Last time I tried to propose a means for boards to specify
their memory restrictions it got shot down for being insufficiently
general :-)

> Maybe strtosz() should just enforce 1MB granularity.

That seems even more random a restriction than whole-page requirements.

-- PMM