[SeaBIOS] Re: [PATCH 4/4] only enable 64bit pci io window when RAM >60G

2024-06-21 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > well, > I've just successfully installed RHEL5.11 and RHEL6.10 from i386 ISOs > on virtio root disk + 64Gb RAM (upstream QEMU), and they booted > to command prompt without any issues. Oh, interesting. Apparently the physical address space is the same in 32-bit and long mode, i.e. on x86

[SeaBIOS] Re: [PATCH 4/4] only enable 64bit pci io window when RAM >60G

2024-06-21 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 04:57:35PM GMT, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 05:47:25PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > > well you just upgraded 'hardware' for legacy OS, there is no guaranties > > that it will continue to work without any changes. > > Are you saying that seabios doesn't a

[SeaBIOS] Re: [PATCH 4/4] only enable 64bit pci io window when RAM >60G

2024-06-21 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 02:48:03PM GMT, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 07:08:38PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 01:29:11PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > > > > I'm leery of moving this heuristic to 64G of ram. I can understand > > > the logic of >4G of ra

[SeaBIOS] Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] only enable 64bit pci io window when RAM >64G

2024-06-21 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 11:21:14AM GMT, John Levon wrote: > Older 32-bit Linux VMs (including Ubuntu 16.10) have issues with the > 64-bit pci io window, failing during boot with errors like: Well. Why people would use *that* ubuntu version is not clear to me. It's *loong* out of support. Eve

[SeaBIOS] Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] only enable 64bit pci io window when RAM >64G

2024-06-21 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 02:05:17PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 11:21:14AM GMT, John Levon wrote: > > Older 32-bit Linux VMs (including Ubuntu 16.10) have issues with the > > 64-bit pci io window, failing during boot with errors like: > > Turns out it apparently can't dea

[SeaBIOS] Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] only enable 64bit pci io window when RAM >64G

2024-06-21 Thread Igor Mammedov
On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:05:17 +0200 Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 11:21:14AM GMT, John Levon wrote: > > Older 32-bit Linux VMs (including Ubuntu 16.10) have issues with the > > 64-bit pci io window, failing during boot with errors like: > > Well. Why people would use *that* ub

[SeaBIOS] Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] only enable 64bit pci io window when RAM >64G

2024-06-21 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 01:37:24PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 02:05:17PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 11:21:14AM GMT, John Levon wrote: > > > Older 32-bit Linux VMs (including Ubuntu 16.10) have issues with the > > > 64-bit pci io window, failin

[SeaBIOS] Re: [PATCH 4/4] only enable 64bit pci io window when RAM >60G

2024-06-21 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 07:34:28PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > Am 20.06.24 um 19:29 schrieb Kevin O'Connor: > > Some possible alternatives: > > > > * We could do nothing for now and continue to gauge how much of a > >problem this is. > > > > * We could revert 96a8d130, and go back to explicit

[SeaBIOS] Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] only enable 64bit pci io window when RAM >64G

2024-06-21 Thread Rudolf Marek
Hi, Dne 21. 06. 24 v 15:20 Igor Mammedov napsal(a): +// Old linux kernels have trouble dealing with more than 44/46 +// phys-bits. Seems to be a bug in the virtio-pci driver. +// 46: centos-7, ubuntu-18.04 +// 44: ubuntu-16.04 +//

[SeaBIOS] Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] only enable 64bit pci io window when RAM >64G

2024-06-21 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 10:29:45PM +0200, Rudolf Marek wrote: > Hi, > > Dne 21. 06. 24 v 15:20 Igor Mammedov napsal(a): > > > +// Old linux kernels have trouble dealing with more than > > > 44/46 > > > +// phys-bits. Seems to be a bug in the virtio-pci driver. > > > +