> From: Eric W. Biederman > > Does vmware > accurately simulate what is required to bring memory up or do we > get to short cut that. If the latter the porting could be done > very quickly. Memory initialization is generally the hard part, > of a LinuxBIOS port and would likely be trivial under vmware :)
VMware virtual 440BX doesn't care about setting RAM timings, etc. but it supports reading DIMM SPD configuration. Initially VM's RAM size can be hardcoded in BIOS. North bridge's PAM (Programmable Attribute Map) registers are fully emulated so BIOS has to do the right thing with them. SMM/SMRAM handling has some peculiarities but LinuxBIOS doesn't care about SMM, does it? Dmitriy Budko, VMware _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
