2009-01-06 01:41:24 Increasing RAM size on BF561 Platform

Manu AS (INDIA)

Message: 67420

I am working on BF-561 platform with SDRAM size 128MB.

I have configured the SDRAM size to 96 MB through Make menuconfig -> Kernel Settings -> Blackfin Processor options -> Board Specific issues -> SDRAM Memory size in MBytes = 96 and SDRAM Memory Addess Width =10.

When I boot the board and see MemTotal, it shows only 58MB.

root:~> cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal: 58156 kB

MemFree: 52504 kB

Buffers: 84 kB

Cached: 1120 kB

SwapCached: 0 kB

Active: 276 kB

Inactive: 924 kB

HighTotal: 0 kB

HighFree: 0 kB

LowTotal: 58156 kB

LowFree: 52504 kB

SwapTotal: 0 kB

SwapFree: 0 kB

Dirty: 36 kB

Writeback: 0 kB

Mapped: 0 kB

Slab: 4252 kB

CommitLimit: 29076 kB

Committed_AS: 0 kB

PageTables: 0 kB

VmallocTotal: 0 kB

VmallocUsed: 0 kB

VmallocChunk: 0 kB

My question is "How to get the complete memory available when the system boots?"

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2009-01-06 01:49:15 Re: Increasing RAM size on BF561 Platform

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 67422

post the entire boot output

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2009-01-06 06:02:42 Re: Increasing RAM size on BF561 Platform

Manu AS (INDIA)

Message: 67467

Hi Mike,

Following is my boot output.

Linux version 2.6.16.11.ADI-2006R1blackfin (manu@babbage) (gcc version 3.4.5 (ADI 2006R1)) #47

2 Tue Jan 6 13:22:29 IST 2009

ADSP-BF561 Rev. 0.768

uClinux/BF561

Blackfin uClinux support by blackfin.uclinux.org

Processor Speed: 500 MHz core clock and 100 Mhz System Clock

Board Memory: 96MB

Memory map:

text = 0x100000-0x1f07c8

data = 0x208868-0x21a8ec

bss = 0x21a8f0-0x2b6c30

rootfs = 0x5200000-0x5f00000

stack = 0x20a000-0x20c000

Command line: 'root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw'

Instruction Cache Enabled

Data Cache Enabled (write-through)

Hardware Trace Enabled

Built 1 zonelists

Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw

Configuring Blackfin Priority Driven Interrupts

PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 4096 bytes)

Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)

Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

Physical pages: 3c00

Memory available: 58044k/96221k RAM, (47k init code, 961k kernel code, 624k data, 36864k dma)

Blackfin Scratchpad data SRAM: 4 KB

Blackfin DATA_A SRAM: 16 KB

Blackfin DATA_B SRAM: 16 KB

Mount-cache hash table entries: 512

NET: Registered protocol family 16

Blackfin DMA Controller for BF561

ezkit_init(): registering device resources

io scheduler noop registered

io scheduler anticipatory registered

io scheduler cfq registered (default)

ADI Video Driver v1.10e

Configured for ADV7180

PAL Camera found [6]

ADI KeyPad Driver v1.10e

ADI Audio Driver v1.45e

Configuring Audio Ineterrupts...

Audio: IRQ 71 is installed successfully.

Audio: IRQ 30 is installed successfully.

enable_irq(71) unbalanced from 00181bdc

enable_irq(30) unbalanced from 00181be2

Configuring Audio Ineterrupts completed

Core B Loader Module enabled

LcdDriver v1.10e

BlackFin BF533 serial driver version 2.00 With DMA Support

RAMDISK driver initialized: 8 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize

PPP generic driver version 2.4.2

smc91x.c: v1.1, sep 22 2004 by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>

SMC_PROBE Flash address:20070000

MAC SET FROM FLASH

MAC ADDRESS: 00:80:01:80:02:80

Blackfin BF561 SMC91x interrupt setup: flag PF9, irq 55

eth0: SMC91C11xFD (rev 2) at 2e000600 IRQ 55 [nowait] [throttle_tx]

eth0: Ethernet addr: 00:80:01:80:02:80

uclinux[mtd]: RAM probe address=0x5200000 size=0xd00000

Creating 1 MTD partitions on "RAM":

0: 0x00000000-0x00d00000 : "EXT2fs"

uclinux[mtd]: set EXT2fs to be root filesystem

BF5xx flash: probing 16-bit flash bus

BF5xx flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank

Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040

BF5xx flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.

number of CFI chips: 1

cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.

Using static partition definition

Creating 5 MTD partitions on "BF5xx flash":

0: 0x00000000-0x000a0000 : "Bootloader"

1: 0x000a0000-0x00200000 : "DefaultKernel"

2: 0x00200000-0x00600000 : "VpKernel"

3: 0x00600000-0x00700000 : "CoreB"

4: 0x00700000-0x00f00000 : "JFFS2"

NET: Registered protocol family 2

IP route cache hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)

TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)

TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)

TCP reno registered

TCP bic registered

NET: Registered protocol family 1

NET: Registered protocol family 17

802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>

All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).

Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed (0x1f1000 - 0x1fb000)

dma_alloc_init: dma_page @ 0x001f7000 - 256 pages at 0x05f00000

SMC_ENABLE Flash address:20070000

eth0: link down

PPPoE options file exits in flash

I am setting local IP

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2009-01-06 06:09:01 Re: Increasing RAM size on BF561 Platform

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 67469

you're using an old version. 2008R1.5 is the latest release. if you were running something up to date, the kernel automatically would have told you to read the FAQ about anomaly 263.

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2009-01-06 22:53:51 Re: Increasing RAM size on BF561 Platform

Manu AS (INDIA)

Message: 67500

I need to use the old release only (2006 release) for one of our product.

There must be some way to increase the RAM size here also.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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2009-01-06 23:48:04 Re: Increasing RAM size on BF561 Platform

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 67501

as i said, read the FAQ: