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On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 5:35 PM, zap <calmst...@posteo.de> wrote: > I heard you considering only sending 1gb of ram instead of 2gb of ram. > I just wanted to ask, if it comes down to it, if you would be willing to > still send 2gb of ram and have uboot preloaded even if it costs a little > extra... for those of us who really need the 2gb of ram. ok, so anything that goes beyond the available budget is just.... not possible. a mixture of RAM ICs would require an evaluation and a quote on exactly how much it would cost to split - and massively complicate - both the *ordering* of the RAM ICs *and* the production of the PCBs. so it may turn out that consideration of the proposed idea would be MASSIVELY more expensive even than doing all PCBs @ 2GB of RAM. a way to *increase* the budget is therefore the most sensible option to explore and consider. translation: someone needs to find more money. > 4gb would be > nice too of course, but 2gb is probably good enough as long as you don't > use virtualization for any reason. :) 4gb physical RAM addressing has never been possible with any Allwinner processor, ever. bit of an oversight on their part. > It also dawns on me, that meltdown does not affect the a20 arm > processor... correct. > heh... :) I am grateful this opportunity even exists. appreciated > Oh and for those on the mailing list who don't know this, A20 is > apparently immune to meltdown and spectre. Because it is part of armv7. > So yeah, that really motivates me! > > I still hope for better though in the future... Shakti anyone? ;) :) _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk