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On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 5:35 PM, zap calmstorm@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? ;)
:)