Just received my ‘new’ Raspberry Pi, which now comes with extra memory (512MB)..    Remember, this model will not boot unless you use the latest firmware!

Booting with arm496_start.elf -> start.elf:

# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:         499072 kB
MemFree:          429988 kB
Buffers:           14248 kB
Cached:            27612 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:            26088 kB
Inactive:          33104 kB
Active(anon):      17396 kB
Inactive(anon):      476 kB
Active(file):       8692 kB
Inactive(file):    32628 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:       1048572 kB
SwapFree:        1048572 kB
Dirty:                80 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:         17344 kB
Mapped:             9004 kB
Shmem:               544 kB
Slab:               5244 kB
SReclaimable:       2692 kB
SUnreclaim:         2552 kB
KernelStack:         936 kB
PageTables:          452 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:     1298108 kB
Committed_AS:      75992 kB
VmallocTotal:     516096 kB
VmallocUsed:        6076 kB
VmallocChunk:     295468 kB
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor       : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l)
BogoMIPS        : 464.48
Features        : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java tls
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xb76
CPU revision    : 7

Hardware        : BCM2708
Revision        : 000f
Serial          : 00000000e9d622a0

Everything else works, as before:

# uname -a
Linux rgpi 3.6.1-pi #4 Mon Oct 15 13:08:24 BST 2012 armv6l armv6l armv6l GNU/Linux

Now, I need to see if USB connectivity is fixed – now that those pesky fuses are no longer there!

I ordered my Pi from Farnells, as before, but there was a note on the packing slip that they would ‘..not be stocking this item in future..’    Maybe the margins are too small?