From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:46:34 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Josh Huber Cc: Linux/PowerPC Devel List Subject: Re: > 512 MB of ram on G4? Message-ID: <20000713204634.A9569@suse.de> References: <20000713142202.A1289@mclx.com> <20000713203507.A8255@suse.de> <20000713144024.A1379@mclx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20000713144024.A1379@mclx.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Thu, Jul 13, Josh Huber wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:35:07PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 13, Josh Huber wrote: > > > > > Hey, I'm trying to put 1GB of ram in an Apple G4 box here, but I'm having > > > trouble. Anything higher (well, in increments of 256M) is dumping me into > > > xmon early on boot (before the fbcons is initialized). > > > > > > Any thoughts? I'm unable to use xmon because of the USB > > > keyboard...unfortunately. Too bad Apple didn't put a real serial port on > > > these machines :( > > > > use mem= as argument, the highest mem I got was mem=703M. > > So is it not (at this time) possible to use 1GB of memory on ppc? No, 768MB is the maximum on chrp (B50), the newer PowerMacs can handle only that 703M. I have no reports about oldworlds. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented... ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/