| 10 Mar 2025 |
 raitobezarius | https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/memory.html | 18:14:42 |
 ElvishJerricco | I thought we just tested everything on bare metal asahi machines | 18:15:33 |
| raitobezarius | In reply to @elvishjerricco:matrix.org
I thought we just tested everything on bare metal asahi machines the day where the sd-boot read() was relying on the firmware not being broken | 18:15:51 |
| ElvishJerricco | oh I fixed that by fucking with the OVMF implementation in a cursed way | 18:16:09 |
| ElvishJerricco | which I guess would be another way to do this, huh? | 18:16:16 |
| raitobezarius | memory_region_init_alias(ram_below_4g, NULL, "ram-below-4g", machine->ram,
0, x86ms->below_4g_mem_size);
| 18:16:36 |
| raitobezarius | either you patch OVMF | 18:16:40 |
| ElvishJerricco | * oh I tested that by fucking with the OVMF implementation in a cursed way | 18:16:42 |
| raitobezarius | either you patch QEMU | 18:16:43 |
| raitobezarius | just kill these lines | 18:16:57 |
| raitobezarius | ram_below_4g = g_malloc(sizeof(*ram_below_4g));
memory_region_init_alias(ram_below_4g, NULL, "ram-below-4g", machine->ram,
0, x86ms->below_4g_mem_size);
memory_region_add_subregion(system_memory, 0, ram_below_4g);
| 18:17:00 |
| raitobezarius | i think that's enough to make RAM below 4GB disappear | 18:17:05 |
| raitobezarius | (pc.c file) | 18:17:13 |
| raitobezarius | but you need a QEMU rebuild | 18:17:19 |
| raitobezarius | a OVMF rebuild may be easier | 18:17:23 |
| ElvishJerricco | right | 18:17:24 |
| raitobezarius | if you want to do it in OVMF | 18:18:11 |
| raitobezarius | for (Link = gMemoryMap.ForwardLink; Link != &gMemoryMap; Link = Link->ForwardLink) {
Entry = CR (Link, MEMORY_MAP, Link, MEMORY_MAP_SIGNATURE);
ASSERT (Entry->VirtualStart == 0);
``
| 18:18:13 |
| raitobezarius | this is the start of the code you want to hook | 18:18:17 |
| raitobezarius | in Page.c | 18:18:18 |
| raitobezarius | you want to check the ranges and just continue; it | 18:18:24 |
| ElvishJerricco | this is probably better to do with qemu | 18:18:28 |
| raitobezarius | a QEMU patch is definitely going to be a stronger indicator | 18:18:38 |
| raitobezarius | don't forget to boot the VM with RAM above 4GB though :D | 18:18:59 |
| ElvishJerricco | fun fun | 18:19:09 |
| ElvishJerricco | I think I'm going to wait for like... anyone else to say anything, like the user with the issue or the systemd folks on the systemd issue | 18:19:42 |
| ElvishJerricco | before I spend the time fucking with qemu like that | 18:20:00 |
| ElvishJerricco | raitobezarius: So the guy has an Intel i7-13700K on an Asus Z690 board. That 100% shouldn't have the 4GB boundary issue, right? | 21:11:15 |
| raitobezarius | that's 2022 grade CPU | 21:11:38 |
| raitobezarius | that surprise me a lot | 21:11:42 |
