ARM kernel doesn't report memory

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Jan 28 20:44:50 UTC 2020


On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 6:20 AM John F Carr <jfc at mit.edu> wrote:

> If you run dmesg on FreeBSD 12 on amd64 you'll see lines "real memory =
> ..." and "avail memory = ...".  They don't show up on 64 bit ARM systems
> running CURRENT.  I can't find anything in dmesg output to show memory.  Is
> this difference a bug or a feature?  The peculiarites of the IBM PC memory
> map may have caused developers to pay more attention to memory on x86
> systems.  My feeling is if the kernel prints out details of each disk drive
> it should at least say how much RAM it has.
>

Agreed. Can you file a bug and assign it to imp at freebsd.org?

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