512MB Pi supported by Arch?


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by tawalker » Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:12 pm
With today's announcement of new Model Bs shipping with 512MB RAM, I spotted that the firmware needs to be upgraded so that the OS will recognise and use the extra memory.

Not that I'm likely to be taking delivery of a "B+" in the next month (AFAIK), but will a simple pacman -Syu update be enough to install the appropriate new firmware to recognise the new RAM?

Many thanks :)
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by pepedog » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:33 pm
Yes. If I got raspberrypi-firmware rebuilt now, they are included. Just name of one of them to start.elf and reboot, your away. Incidentally, when upgrading the same memory split file as you have is chosen for you
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by Grauhut » Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:32 pm
Hi Pepedog, how exactly do i activate the bigger memory of a 512mb board in archlinux-hf-2012-09-18?

Or is there a newer release?

(I am new to arch but i like it, kismet and gpsd simply work [alfa+nl-402] :))
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by pepedog » Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:02 pm
Is your system up to date?
pacman -Syu
sync
reboot

That should be it, you can adjust the split of 512Mb between the gpu and Linux.
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by Grauhut » Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:32 pm
pepedog wrote:pacman -Syu
sync
reboot

THX a lot, one new command learned!

Worked like a charm!

[root@alarmpi ~]# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 446888 kB
MemFree: 409300 kB
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