Hi,

If I understand it correctly the AT91SAM9M10-G45 eval. board has two 128MB RAM's Modules onboard.

After the build of an WinCe image (~21MB) with the BSP 1.4.0 I see in control panel->system properties only ~60MB as system memory.

I suspect the reason in this entry of the config.bib file:
RAM2 88000000 02000000 RESERVED

What is the right way too increase the RAM memory for the Windows system?
Is it only this entry or is it more?

thanks

You should just have to change the RESERVED to RAM. The g_oalAddressTable also needs to reflect the added virtual address space. This is in cfg.inc but it is allready configured.

I changed the line in config.bib to:

RAM2 88000000 08000000 RAM

But it doesn't help anything.

Is it an problem that the RAM memory ranges are not contiguous?

I have come a little further.

Now I have reversed the changes in config.bib. Therefore I changed in init.c the routine OEMEnumExtensionDRAM().

If I report the system a memory range with start address 0x88000000 and a size < 0x04000000 it works correct. But with a size >= 0x04000000 the system doesn't boot anymore. In the debug output you can see many protection faults.
What can be the reason for this memory size border?

Hi HLee,

You're right, the BSP does not manage the 2 banks of DDRAM of the G45EK/M10EK. The reason is because on the first prototype boards we received, only the first bank of DDR was functional.

Before setting the ram size, you must modify the DDR initialization in the AT91F_InitDDRam() function located in the Firstboot code (\PLATFORM\AT91SAM9G45M10EK\SRC\BOOTLOADER\FirstBoot\ddram.c). You can activate and adapt the TestDDRam to test the chip. After you can adapt the image ram size.

HTH

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Hi HTH,

and other problem is to choose the right display driver.
Because the DEBI driver use video memory at adresse 0x20000000.
Which is the start of the 2. RAM.

HLee

Hi all,
I'd kindly ask you a clarification: the EV board comes with 2x128Mb RAM banks:
EBI0 ==> connected to a 128Mb RAM bank
EBI1 ==> connected to a 128Mb RAM bank and to a nandflash

The BSP v1.4 is able to handle alla the RAM?
In a application (with M10 processor) that is mostly for video playback, which is the "best performance" configuration?
Use EBI0 for framebuffer ("DISPLAY_DEBI") ? Is it enough to enable this define instead of "DISPLAY_SEBI"?