(12-27-2015, 09:15 PM)Kommander Wrote: with enough requests a 4gb or even 6gb version *could* be tooled, making full use of the 64bit addressing [...] PineA64 2.0
Regarding max. memory it's written in the SoC's user manual: http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?t...d=78#pid78 (in other words: combining two 12Gb modules is the maximum. AFAIR only Samsung produces modules of this size. And that's LPDDR4 and therefore not useable with the A64. So you simply end up with 2 GB max. And if anyone starts to produce 12Gb DDR3 /DDR3L/LPDDR3 in the future you end up with 3 GB that are still within the 32 bit addressing scheme. But as already written: the difference -- for some use cases -- makes the huge virtual address space with 64 bit)
Regarding Pine64 2.0: I would believe the 'Linux experience' with the first version will prevent that automagically. Due to no central efforts to provide software there will be a huge fragmentation from the early beginnings and Linux novices will be confused if they try to follow a tutorial where's written 'do an apt-get install ...' when they would've to use pacman/yum/yast instead since they're using a different distro.
The Raspberry Pi's formula for success was simplicity, 'less is more', one single OS image that is in widespread use and concentration on the very same (already outdated) hardware so that mature software support and a community was able to evolve. Something no other vendor seems to understand (they only focus on hardware and don't realise that software is way more important).