[Gta04-owner] Additional RAM free for everyone!

Christoph Mair christoph.mair at gmail.com
Mon Nov 28 23:26:43 CET 2011


Hello EA-board owners!

Now that I have your attention, I have bad news for you:

   there is no free RAM. You have to pay for it.

The good news is: you already did so. You just have to use what you paid for.

You may have noticed that your GTA04 was advertised with 512MiB of
RAM, but u-boot and linux told you that only 256MiB are actually
installed.
Here is how to double that amount with three easy steps:

1) Get a copy of the newest x-loader binary: http://chonyota.net/gta04/MLO
2) Update your boot partition to use the new x-loader. It should work
if you just overwrite your MLO. No need to create a new partition
(please make a backup of the old MLO anyway).
3) Boot and be happy!

As an additional bonus, the memory frequency is now 200MHz, not 166MHz
what it used to be, but I still have to make sure that the linux
kernel does not touch the timings later on. I have not checked that
yet.

Have fun!

Christoph


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