Re: Issues with PowerMac g5 970MP
Matthias Freitag <[email protected]>
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Yeah i know about it running in 32bit-mode, but even then it should be able to use more than 1,6G right? I have an iBook G4 that has a max RAM of 1,5G on hardware-basis which makes sense and all, but on a G5?! Also, did you see his dmesg? :) [...] hw.product=PowerMac11,2 hw.physmem=2684354560 hw.usermem=*2684342272* hw.ncpufound=2 [...] 2018-03-02 18:37 GMT+01:00 Christoph R. Murauer <[email protected]>: > Hello ! > > > I also can't use more than 1,6G of RAM, although there's more in the > machine. > > That is normal (I have here 2 DP G5s) because OpenBSD runs only in 32 > bit mode (even the G5 is a 64 bit CPU). See > https://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html section History. The max RAM in > the G4 (G3 less) was 2 GB see > https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/specs/powermac_g4_450.html > as example. > > > > > > >