On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 17:48 Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 12:05:58 +0100
> Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> >   Hi,
> >
> > > Another question is why we split memory on 16Gb chunks, to begin with.
> > > Maybe instead of doing so, we should just add 1 type17 entry describing
> > > whole system RAM size. In which case we don't need this dance around
> > > handle offsets anymore.
> >
> > Maybe to make the entries look like they do on physical hardware?
> > i.e. DIMM size is a power of two?  Also physical 1TB DIMMs just
> > don't exist?
>
> Does it have to be a DIMM, we can make it Other/Unknown/Row of chips/Chip
> to more close to builtin memory that's is our main ram is.


My concern here is even though the spec has provisions for those form
factors I wonder if the guests only expect dimm ? Will it break some guest
operating system?

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