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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:01:00 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Memory on stellaris board
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To: Aurelio Remonda <aurelio.remonda@tallertechnologies.com>
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On 11 February 2016 at 12:46, Aurelio Remonda
<aurelio.remonda@tallertechnologies.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>> The right way to do this is to set the MachineClass default_ram_size
>> to what you want your default value to be. Then you should calculate
>> the dc0 etc values to expose to the guest based on the ram size
>> (which might be the default or might be user specified).
>
> But stellaris board has a hardcoded dc0 value, when you place the -m flag
> with for example 256M you shouldn't calculate any sram_size from dc0, you
> just assign that as your ram size.

What I am suggesting is that dc0 should not be hardcoded, but
that you should work out what dc0 to use based on the user
provided RAM size.

thanks
-- PMM