[ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation

Stuart Winter m-lists at biscuit.org.uk
Tue Dec 13 12:48:43 UTC 2011



> AIUI, the RAM limit in qemu is platform dependant. The versatilepb
> platform is limited to 256MB, but according to the following
> page, the vexpress-a9 platform supports up to 1GB RAM:
>
> https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuVersatileExpress
>
> Although it will probably will take a bit more effort to get working than
> just changing the machine type on the qemu command line.

I might look at this later and replace the Versatile support with the
Versatile Express.  After all, the only aim is to 'showcase' Slackware ARM
without having any real ARM hardware (although the original reason was
because my RiscPC broke down and I had no substitute).
Perhaps when I've finished adding support for the Trimslice, I'll look at
this.


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