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

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