Re: RAM upgrade abandoned

> you problably missed but there is a hack to add more flash,
> and from what Keith said, perhaps adding 4MB flash would
> let us use an uncompressed filesystem and get a few more
> CPU cycles from the units

If you are talkink about the same page
http://www.wiresncode.com/projects/wireless/openap/
then you are wrong
this project REPLACES flash it does not add anything
this ap have 1mb as before.
This project had good idea how to avoid using sram but nothing else
and I still dont understand authors motivation to replace exsisting flash
chip
 with aditional board forever.


and about CPU cycles you still miss the point:
yes, maibe you will increase userspace response
but who cares about it?
it is not so slow anyway. it wont increase througput  at all.
and if you are still going to upgrade memory you should be ready
to solder the same type chip on top of old flash
there wont be any upgrade cards
if you an do this you can start experimenting right now
all that must be done is software
the fast and simple solution to get aditional addess line is to use one gpio
for example use one led. that all what is needed

if you need so high computing power then use normal computer
you probably can find some 100mhz pentium for free or very cheap

so the best would be to design some isa flash card to aviod using hdd (or
use ide flashdisk)
I think it is much better than working on obsolette platform which is not
possible to buy anywhere
also this way probably wont become obsolette because uses pc platform.