Memory size issue

[Jan Lübbe]

On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 13:45 +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I found a discrepancy between the size of memory in the system and
> report by meminfo.
> In the following example, the system registered 512M, but the meminfo
> shows only 256M.
> Error or so and originally intended?
> 
> barebox at i.MX51:/ devinfo mem0
> resources:
> num   : 0
> name  : ram0
> start : 0x90000000
> size  : 0x20000000
> driver: mem
> bus: platform
> 
> no info available for mem0
> no parameters available
> barebox at i.MX51:/ meminfo
> max system bytes =     245760
> system bytes     =     245760
> in use bytes     =     223200

This is 240kiB, not 256MiB. As meminfo shows only the memory used by
barebox, this is should not be the same as the SDRAM size.

Regards,
Jan
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