Re: "Expanding" memory of an armel device?
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 09:29:11PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
>
> > That being said, the kurobox pro has a PCI Express connector. Is there any
> > cheap peripheral that I could buy that would help me with the task of
> > "expanding" the memory of this NAS?
>
> There appear to be PCIe SSDs but I and others couldn't find any PCIe
> RAM, there appears to be a gap in the market.
>
> http://www.fusionio.com/products/
> https://superuser.com/questions/545378/why-arent-there-pcie-ram-expansions
PCIe is a bus that uses transactions. I am not sure you could use it
for plain ram the way you could with the ISA bus given that was simply
a localbus to the system. I suppose it might be posible though given
you are supposed to be able to have PCI/PCIe devices memory mapped.
Perhaps because PCs have lots of ram, and PCI was limited in general
to 32bit addressing, it was never a feasible or worthwhile way to add
memory to a system.
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Len Sorensen
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