[ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation

Stuart Winter m-lists at biscuit.org.uk
Wed Dec 14 22:08:56 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.

So this one has no SCSI or IDE bus - just SD card.  That limits it as far
as Slackware is concerned :-(
I don't want to trade RAM for a lack of addressable standard storage.

-- 
Stuart Winter
Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org


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