[ydl-gen] 192M vs. 256M

[David Seikel]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:07:18 -0800 jmzorko at mac.com wrote:

> >> I read that the XMB reserves 64M of RAM for its' own use, but I
> >> would have thought that when running Linux, XMB isn't running,
> >> hence the full 256M is available.  Is this true?  "top" still
> >> seems to say that only 192M of RAM is there ...
> >
> > It's the hypervisor that is running on one of the SPUs that is using
> > that ram for it's own security purposes.
> 
> "... it's own security purposes." -- sounds kinda nefarious.  No  
> worries, just askin' :-)

It's just a security layer between the "Other OS" (Linux) and the
hardware.  Stops people from messing with the GameOS partition from
Linux and other naughty things.