Subject: RE: 64MB RAM in RiscPC
To: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
From: Sebastian Maus <maus@iphcip1.physik.uni-mainz.de>
List: port-arm32
Date: 04/30/1999 12:14:35
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> On Fri 16 Apr, Gilbert, Christopher wrote:
> > > Should a single 64MB SIMM work in a RiscPC with a 1.3G kernel?
> >
> > I vaguely remember something about this from a long long time ago, I think
> > that at 64MB or more you had to add a boot option of nbuf=500 or something
> > like that, this might not be necessary anymore, I can't remember.
> 
> The code to read the value of nbuf= is commented out in machdep.c, so I
> suppose it was felt to be superfluous.
I have a RISC PC with a single 64 MB SIMM. It works nicely with Risc OS
and NetBSD 1.3 (alternatively). I don't use the nbuf boot option. The
kernel I use is the Aug 1998 SCSI-test kernel.
I hope that helped somewhat.

Gruesse, regards
             -Sebastian-
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