On 2016-04-21, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Are you saying that the amount of RAM seen by Debian Linux is
> determined by something in u-boot?

Yes.


> But if I were using your patched mainline u-boot, I would get a
> different (larger) number (almost, but not quite, the full 4.0GiB)?

That's how it's worked for me, yes.

There's something about the imx6 that limits it to 3.8GB.


> I seem to remember that I got roughly the same number (lightly less
> than 2.0 GiB) when I booted the manufacturer supplied u-boot and
> Ubuntu kernel from the uSD-card that came with it.

Maybe it came with a u-boot that didn't support the cubox-i4x4, as it
wasn't added until relatively recently:

  https://github.com/SolidRun/u-boot-imx6
  
Or, maybe you really did get a cubox-i4pro.


live well,
  vagrant

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