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koopa · (This post was last modified: 2012-10-15, 15:35 by koopa.)

Raspberry pi foundation just announced that model B raspberry pi's will now come with 512 mb ram.

What benefit does this bring to xbmc? Is there anything that would work better on these models dramatically enough to buy a new one?

Wanderlei · (This post was last modified: 2012-10-15, 15:52 by Wanderlei.)

I am wondering if xbmc right now will take advantage of the extra RAM or it it will only operate with 256mb, whether its a 256mb or 512mb board?

**popcornmix** · 2012-10-15, 15:59

You can update your start.elf from here:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/...aster/boot
The arm256_start.elf is probably best for xbmc.

Unless you are currently swapping, or failing with memory allocation errors on GPU, it won't make any real difference.

Wanderlei · 2012-10-15, 16:38

Ah ok, so all that is needed is an updated start.elf.

Is there a preferred memory split?

**popcornmix** · 2012-10-15, 17:45

(2012-10-15, 16:38)Wanderlei Wrote: Is there a preferred memory split?

(2012-10-15, 15:59)popcornmix Wrote: The arm256_start.elf is probably best for xbmc.

**sraue** · 2012-10-16, 03:03

(2012-10-15, 15:34)koopa Wrote: Raspberry pi foundation just announced that model B raspberry pi's will now come with 512 mb ram.

What benefit does this bring to xbmc? Is there anything that would work better on these models dramatically enough to buy a new one?

hmmm if i think about this...

i should order a 512MB version to try how great OpenELEC runs from RAM... i think we can spend 80MB to do this...

Kelemvor · 2012-10-16, 16:28

I was wondering this too. Can get a 256 Pi from ebay and such for $45 or so and have it in a week. Or can get the 512 meg version for around the same price (with shipping) but not have it for a month or two. All I will be using it for is XMBC so if anyone actually tests this (whenever someone gets a 512 version) please let us know.

sufreak · 2012-10-18, 18:18

(2012-10-15, 15:59)popcornmix Wrote: You can update your start.elf from here:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/...aster/boot
The arm256_start.elf is probably best for xbmc.

Unless you are currently swapping, or failing with memory allocation errors on GPU, it won't make any real difference.

Forgive my ignorance, I'm new to Raspberry Pi. Isn't RaspXBMC/OPENELEC a replacement for the firmware on the device? So wouldn't RaspXBMC/Openelec have to build in support for 512MB?

Kelemvor · 2012-10-18, 18:20

From the Raspbmc site:
http://www.raspbmc.com/2012/10/new-512mb...i-raspbmc/