Not sure what you mean by "system memory". You can turn on CONFIG_HIGHMEM and
get access to 512 MB physical memory or more on the BCM with a 32-bit kernel,
but you can't access memory above the low 256 MB directly through KSEG0/1, so
there are some things that the kernel can't use it for (though it can be
allocated to user processes). Also, since CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM isn't supported,
you end up wasting a bunch of RAM on useless page table space (36MB for 512 MB
physical), and there's also some caching weirdness if you try and mmap()
/dev/mem to get user access to the >0x10000000 I/O registers. Also, your
startup will report "1792 MB HIGHMEM available".
sf
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Madsen [mailto:madsen@tadpole.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:00 PM
> To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
> Subject: Using more than 256 MB of memory on SB1250 in 32-bit mode
>
>
> Is it possible to use more than 256 MB of system memory with
> the Broadcom
> SB1250 in 32-bit mode? The memory map I'm looking at shows
> me that the
> second 256 MB of memory is at physical address 0x80000000. I
> suspect that
> due to the 2G/2G split in the kernel, I can't use memory this
> high without
> moving to the 64-bit kernel.
>
> Would someone confirm this for me?
>
> --
> Steve Madsen <madsen@tadpole.com>
> Tadpole Computer, Inc. http://www.tadpole.com
>
>
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