re: Pegasos dmesg

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

hi matt.

   Is this a Pegasos I or II?

II.  so far netbsd only runs on pegasosII afaik.
   
   Either way I think it's a firmware bug. What version do you have?

i have...

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thanks for responding,


.mrg.

   
   -- 
   Matt Sealey <matt%genesi-usa.com@localhost>
   Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations
   
   matthew green wrote:
   > hi matt,
   > 
   > i'm wondering if you have any clue about another pegasos issue
   > we're having.  basically, the OFW seems to be stealing most of
   > my ram for it's own purposes.
   > 
   > my machine has 512mb ram in it, and linux sees all this.  when
   > i boot netbsd, i only see ~240MB or so, and this comes from the
   > available property in /memory:
   > 
   > reg                   0:20000000
   > available             0:1000000
   >                       1800000:E400000
   > 
   > ie, the entire top 256mb is not available and a couple of chunks
   > from the first 256mb are also taken.
   > 
   > i put another 512mb ram in and now it says:
   > 
   > reg                   0:40000000
   > available             0:1000000
   >                       1800000:E400000
   > 
   > and netbsd still sees only the same about of ram.  of the 1024mb
   > installed, netbsd has 231mb available after booting.
   > 
   > if i ignore the "available" and use "reg" i hang when attaching
   > rtas at mainbus.  i tried finding regions to steal back from
   > OFW, but at best i found one 0x40000 sized area that didn't
   > cause some sort of lossage.
   > 
   > 
   > do you have any idea why the prom is not providing this ram?
   > 
   > thanks.
   > 
   > 
   > .mrg.