Re: Pegasos dmesg

Is this a Pegasos I or II?

Either way I think it's a firmware bug. What version do you have?

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Matt Sealey <[email protected]>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations

matthew green wrote:
> hi matt,
> 
> i'm wondering if you have any clue about another pegasos issue
> we're having.  basically, the OFW seems to be stealing most of
> my ram for it's own purposes.
> 
> my machine has 512mb ram in it, and linux sees all this.  when
> i boot netbsd, i only see ~240MB or so, and this comes from the
> available property in /memory:
> 
> reg                   0:20000000
> available             0:1000000
>                       1800000:E400000
> 
> ie, the entire top 256mb is not available and a couple of chunks
> from the first 256mb are also taken.
> 
> i put another 512mb ram in and now it says:
> 
> reg                   0:40000000
> available             0:1000000
>                       1800000:E400000
> 
> and netbsd still sees only the same about of ram.  of the 1024mb
> installed, netbsd has 231mb available after booting.
> 
> if i ignore the "available" and use "reg" i hang when attaching
> rtas at mainbus.  i tried finding regions to steal back from
> OFW, but at best i found one 0x40000 sized area that didn't
> cause some sort of lossage.
> 
> 
> do you have any idea why the prom is not providing this ram?
> 
> thanks.
> 
> 
> .mrg.