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by yjftsjthsd-h 2236 days ago
Generally a very nice addition to the lineup. I'm personally fascinated by the support for soldering on an additional RAM chip; depending on how painful it is to actually access that memory, the extra 8MB could finally be enough to run uclinux.
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The ESP32 can do that too. Note that PSRAM is a lot slower than the embedded SRAM, so if you need to access that memory a lot, you're going to have a bad time.
Rest assured, when I'm trying to figure out whether I can coerce Linux into running on a board that was never meant to support such a thing, "slow" is a secondary concern:)
Apparently it's as simple as using a different offset in pointers when enabled!