From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com Message-ID: <396E13E2.F49A37D1@vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:09:22 +0000 Reply-To: tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Huber CC: Olaf Hering , Linux/PowerPC Devel List Subject: Re: > 512 MB of ram on G4? References: <20000713142202.A1289@mclx.com> <20000713203507.A8255@suse.de> <20000713144024.A1379@mclx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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? > > hmm. Not yet ... 768 Meg is in theory the maximum. Hopefully in about 2 weeks this is going to get fixed. Regards, Tom Tom Gall - PowerPC Linux Team "Where's the ka-boom? There was Linux Technology Center supposed to be an earth (w) tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com shattering ka-boom!" (w) 507-253-4558 -- Marvin Martian (h) tgall@uswest.net http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/