# suffisant space for U-Boot, Linux and an initrd image ? (4MB SDRAM)

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## suffisant space for U-Boot, Linux and an initrd image ? (4MB SDRAM)

- From: Fabien Oriede \<hidden\>
- Date: 2008-08-04 12:54:02 
- Message: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2008/08/9444881.md

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Hi all,
I would like to know if this is possible to port U-Boot, Linux and an initrd image on a board with 4MB of SDRAM ?
When Linux try to boot, there is this line on the terminal :
"Memory : 2036k available (1036k kernel code, 256k data, 80k init, 0k highmem)"
So I have 2036k memory available for my initrd image but I don't know if this is suffisant.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Fabien.


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## Re: suffisant space for U-Boot, Linux and an initrd image ? (4MB SDRAM)

- From: Marco Stornelli \<hidden\>
- Date: 2008-08-04 13:41:07 
- Message: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2008/08/9444882.md

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Fabien Oriede ha scritto:
> Hi all,
> I would like to know if this is possible to port U-Boot, Linux and an initrd image on a board with 4MB of SDRAM ?
> When Linux try to boot, there is this line on the terminal :
> "Memory : 2036k available (1036k kernel code, 256k data, 80k init, 0k highmem)"
> So I have 2036k memory available for my initrd image but I don't know if this is suffisant.
> Thanks in advance.
> Regards,
> Fabien.
>
>
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Only 4MB of sdram? As far as I know the smallest device with Linux is picotux with 8MB of ram and 2MB of flash.

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