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Re: [Xen-devel] Source of guest-physical address in PCI BAR for HVMdomai

To: "Zulauf, John" <john.zulauf@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Source of guest-physical address in PCI BAR for HVMdomain?
From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 02:13:42 +0000
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> It is interesting to note that Linux behaves differently that Windows in
> this regard.  Windows pays attention to the ASL limits and will not
> exceed them even if less RAM is allocated to the domain.  Linux (at
> least as of my last test of this) will reallocate BARs anywhere
> unclaimed.

That may be something that should be looked at on the Linux side rather
than the Xen side ?

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