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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.
Raspberry Pi engineer PhilE said resellers were buying lower-capacity boards, swapping in unvalidated chips, and selling them ...
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Raspberry Pi locks boards to factory RAM capacities in firmware
Raspberry Pi users are being firmware blocked from swapping the RAM chips on their SBCs for repairs or upgrades.
This seems like an odd restriction for a platform built around DIY projects, but Raspberry Pi has a legitimate reason for putting it there. Raspberry Pi Engineer and forum moderator PhilE acknowledged ...
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 ...
New dock and app launcher arrive while soaring memory prices revive scrutiny of a two-year-old firmware restriction ...
Raspberry Pi has confirmed its boards are firmware-locked to their factory RAM configuration, closing off a popular DIY ...
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 ...
Learn more about optimizing the Raspberry Pi 5’s software environment from the team responsible for developing the latest mini PC in the range. The evolution and development of the Raspberry Pi 5 ...
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