"Dmitriy Budko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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.
So there is a little pain but it should be fairly easy... > North bridge's PAM (Programmable Attribute Map) registers are fully emulated > so BIOS has to do the right thing with them. That bit is easy. > SMM/SMRAM handling has some peculiarities but LinuxBIOS doesn't care about > SMM, does it? Nope. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
