DM800 Memory

    Hi,


    I have a new DM800, and on the box it indicates it should have 256MB of memory, however on booting it up it appears to have 128:



    root@dm800:/tmp# free
    total used free shared buffers
    Mem: 125020 98520 26500 0 100
    Swap: 0 0 0
    Total: 125020 98520 26500


    This appears to be done by specifying a kernel parameter limiting the memory to 128M:


    root@dm800:/tmp# cat /proc/cmdline
    root=/dev/mtdblock3 rootfstype=jffs2 rw mem=128M console=null


    Is there any reason for this? Is the second 128MB of address space reserved for the framebuffer or something?

    hallo


    i have same thing on dm7025
    normaly it should have 128 MB memory RAM
    BUT i get only 72 MB


    root@dm7025:~# free
    total used free shared buffers
    Mem: 72908 70716 2192 0 4348


    how it's possible ? :kissing_face:
    Kernel 2.6.12 is not limited by memory :wacko:

    not again...


    We had that about ten times in the past. Not all of the built in memory is visible to the linux os. A big part is reserved for the hardware components.
    That's the reason, why linux shows you this "wrong" values.


    Your boxes are NOT broken, everything is fine.


    Tode