Yeah, but how about on real hardware? Does SeaBIOS have some POST beep codes?
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > "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