Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12309 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> I remember having some very interesting arguments with one of the Genesi employees
> regarding the feasibility of adding more RAM to the Efika and the ultimate answer was
> that it would be a violation of the TOS of the device to hack the firmware to accept more
> RAM, it would be almost impossible to find the right kind of RAM with regard to the
> timing, and if we wanted Genesi to do the work, it would cost approx. $30,000 US
> dollars to modify the firmware and IIRC, it would require a new production run of
> Efika boards as well, though I disputed this last part, as I don't see why our existing
> boards could not be modified with the additional RAM, as who would design the PCB
> to "NOT" work with the full complement of RAM that the 5200b CPU and other components
> on the board could handle?
boot_wb in another thread agrees with you, at least regarding expanding the RAM to 256 MiB:
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9655&forum=3&start=7