On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 19:18:50 +0100 Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 15/02/19 16:42, Igor Mammedov wrote: > >> > >> What about -m, too? Then you'd specify a memdev instead of the initial > >> memory size. > > that somewhat what I've planned, > > make -m X translate into -object > > memory-backend-ram,id=magically-get-what-board-uses-now,size=X -machine > > memdev=thatid > > > > one more reason for memdev vs device is that -numa now uses memdevs and so > > far it > > doesn't look that non-numa initial RAM would get immediate benefits from > > using -device > > on most boards (well, I couldn't come up with any modulo backend/frontend > > consistent usage) > > What I meant is what about making the non-NUMA option -m memdev=thatid > (and the automatic translation you mention too). Yes, bikeshedding. :) sure, I can add it, it would be just an alias to machine.memdev > > Paolo >
