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From: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
To: Sergey Anosov <aserg2004@list.ru>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] memory restriction in 256M - why?
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:58:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A953177.9080507@mail.berlios.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb8d4f70908260229r7e61973dgd3b8c4a5afe86527@mail.gmail.com>

Artyom Tarasenko schrieb:
> 2009/8/25 Sergey Anosov <aserg2004@list.ru>:
>   
>> I'm new in QEMU. I've got one question - why there is a memory restriction in 256 M on sparc, mips and other platforms?
>> I've made mips and sparc distributives, but 256M of RAM is too little for them.
>>     
>
> There is no such restriction:
>
> qemu-system-sparc -M SS-10 -m 512
> ...
> Probing Memory Bank #0 64 Megabytes of DRAM
> Probing Memory Bank #1 64 Megabytes of DRAM
> Probing Memory Bank #2 64 Megabytes of DRAM
> Probing Memory Bank #3 64 Megabytes of DRAM
> Probing Memory Bank #4 64 Megabytes of DRAM
> Probing Memory Bank #5 64 Megabytes of DRAM
> Probing Memory Bank #6 64 Megabytes of DRAM
> Probing Memory Bank #7 64 Megabytes of DRAM
> ...
>
> But there is a limitation per certain machine type. SparcStation 10
> can support only 512 M. It rarely makes sense to try to put more in
> it: a standard software (Firmware, OS)  wouldn't know where to search
> for more RAM.
>
>
>
>   

MIPS Malta is limited to 256 MiB. This is a hardware limitation
and not caused by QEMU.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-26 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-25  7:57 [Qemu-devel] memory restriction in 256M - why? Sergey Anosov
2009-08-26  9:29 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2009-08-26 12:58   ` Stefan Weil [this message]
2009-08-26 16:53   ` Blue Swirl

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