"Fred ." <eldman...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Frediano Ziglio <frediano.zig...@citrix.com> writes: >> >>> On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 16:24 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: >>>> Fred . wrote: >>>> > No, I am not. >>>> >>>> Ok, so there's only a hypothesis. >>>> >>>> >>>> > But I believe QEMU does have the functionality to load an arbitrary >>>> > firmware. So the firmware doesn't necessarily have to be SeaBIOS. >>>> >>>> As you may know the 8086 reset vector is at 1MB-16 so it will be >>>> really difficult to run a PC-like machine with less than 1MB of >>>> memory. I don't believe one has ever existed. >>>> >>> >>> I remember that my manual of the NEC V20 (a 8086 clone with 10 MHZ!) has >>> settings for 256KB of RAM (jumpers of course!) >>> >>> The ROM was "mapped" (physically!) at f0000 with extended ROM at e0000. >> >> According to Wikipedia, the original IBM PC was sold with as little as >> 16KiB RAM. IIRC, 64KiB BIOS ROM at the top of the 1MiB address space. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC >> >> [...]
> Some machines also have broken memory modules. > So some computers have 0 byte RAM in that case. :D Yup, be we *can* catch that in QEMU :) _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios