[Arm-netbook] 3.0.8 kernel only detects 512 MB RAM on 1 GB device

[Tom Cubie]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Henrik Nordström
> <henrik at henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> > tis 2012-05-15 klockan 00:53 +0000 skrev Steven Pledger:
> >
> >> So I guess I'll try loading the kernel from NAND using the u-boot that
> came with
> >> my device.
> >
> > Would not help. It's the allwinner kernel that overrides u-boot memory
> > detection.
> >
> > What we need to do is to make u-boot correctly detect the ram so it can
> > give the right info to the kernel.
>
> but why not making the kernel detect the ram correctly?
>
the kernel can not access the io at the early stage, so it can not read the
dram controller.

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