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Raspberry Pi won't let you swap the RAM on your SBC because you might use memory of dubious origin
Unfortunate news for hardware tinkerers everywhere.
The issue came up on the Raspberry Pi forums after a user replaced the RAM on a Compute Module 5 but couldn't get the board to ...
In a recent video [Jeff Geerling] addresses an issue discovered with the Raspberry Pi firmware, specifically how since around 2024 the firmware locks down what RAM size and even module is ...
Raspberry Pi engineer PhilE said resellers were buying lower-capacity boards, swapping in unvalidated chips, and selling them ...
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