On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 16:56, Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> wrote: > I wonder if we should make user provided '-m' a hard error > for boards that have fixed RAM size. And make '-m' or forthcoming > "-machine memdev" optin feature for boards that explicitly ask for it?
Maybe. I bet that there are users out there explicitly specifying the ram size anyway, though... > > PS: > (I suspect that the most boards with fixed RAM size do not really > care about numa, mempath/prealloc and other features memdev provides) Yes, almost nothing cares about NUMA and all that stuff, whether it has a fixed RAM size or not. Ideally that would be opt-in stuff so the 99% of board models which aren't x86 PC or arm virt could ignore it :-) thanks -- PMM