Re: Please requeue cernlib for stable-proposed-updates?

["Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 05:36:06PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:20:10AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> > > > OK, thank you!  (Cool, I didn't know you could put 512 MB on a 68k
> > > > machine.)
> > >
> > > 68k has 4G address space, so why not? ;-)
> > 
> > Sure, why not? Why hasn't anybody come up with 1GB or more 168 pin DIMMs
> > yet?
> > 
> > (Not sure the CT60 can address that much RAM in a single slot. If not,
> > someone would have to design a RAM expansion for the bus extender slot
> > that's still unused, with the ethernet card not ready yet).
> 
> IIRC, the Amiga FastLance SCSI board can take up to 256 MiB of RAM.
> And since the A3000 and A4000 have 4 Zorro III slots, 1 GiB of RAM should be
> possible, assumed the type of RAM to put on the board is actually sold (usually
> they stop selling it before maximum capacity is reached ;-(.

I think 512MB is fine, imagine how much longer it would take the CT60 to
boot with even more RAM ;-)

I am only a little worried about the RAM on our CF boards, they have only 64
MB, on a tiny board though, and if I read the specs correctly, they only go
up to 128MB. I hope that limit exists only for the FireEngine boards, but
even then it would be a shame... imagine, you could physically put 4 or even
6 of these boards into a keyboard housing and have the power of the
Debian/m68k buildd fleet literally under your fingertips! The ethernet
adapters use more volume than the CPU, and it even comes with two...

Christian