Re: Debian Jessie regression under qemu-system-sparc64

[Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>]

On 11/11/14 02:46, Bob Bib wrote:

> 2014-11-09 from Mark Cave-Ayland:
>> Panic over.
>>
>> It seems that the latest build has increased the memory requirement
>> above QEMU's 128MB built-in default. Increasing the RAM to 256MB seems
>> to get things going again:
>>
>> $ ./qemu-system-sparc64 -m 256 -cdrom
>> /home/build/src/qemu/image/sparc64/mini.iso -boot d -nographic
>>
>> I guess everyone has more RAM in their SPARC hardware these days?
> 
> Have just played with QEMU (Debian qemu/2.1+dfsg-5+b1);
> the current Debian daily image (20141111-00:26)
> begins to boot without panic starting from 144 MiB of QEMU's RAM.

Thanks for the clarification. My guess is that it's probably due to an
alignment requirement causing an existing allocation to get bumped
outside of the original 128MB rather than the amount of memory
increasing dramatically...


ATB,

Mark.