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The 32MB shared memory limit

PostPosted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 10:40 pm
by mipt98
Is it a good idea to try to change the 32MB shared DRAM limit [0x8e000000...0x8fffffff]? For instance, to expand it to [0x8CF08000...0x907FFFFF] (~57MB) as the E64 memory model seems to allow this. Then if I change and recompile the device tree file and update LDFs accordingly -- will it work? If yes, in principle it would be possible to use other parts of the memory address space that are not mapped onto cores. Could be very useful to have more shared memory in exchange for having less system memory. My Linux doesn't seem to use more than 100 out of 512 MB anyway.
-Ivan

Re: The 32MB shared memory limit

PostPosted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 12:20 am
by aolofsson
Ivan,
Sorry for the slow response! Yes,this is certainly possible. I would not recommend running Ubuntu with less than 400MB of DRAM.(more is better). The zedboard only has 512MB. With the 1GB of the Parallella you will have more choices.
Andreas