[SeaBIOS] How much RAM is required?

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 04:54:06PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> writes:
> > Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >> Could SeaBIOS fail more cleanly when it detects insufficient RAM?
> >
> > What would you propose?
> 
> Fail POST with panic("Not enough RAM")?

The amount of memory is communicated from QEMU to SeaBIOS via nvram
variables.  As far as I know, those variables can only communicate ram
sizes in 1meg chunks - so there is no way to communicate (and/or
detect) a ramsize of under 1 meg.

-Kevin