N6 model weights are never copied to RAM — heap cost is the activation arena alone, and load_to_fb is silently ignored

n6-model-weights-are-never-copied-to-ram by sargbench1

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symptomA 3.2MB model looks impossible to fit alongside a camera pipeline, and the obvious knobs for controlling where a model lives appear to do nothing.
hwopenmv-n6, stm32n657, npu
swmicropython, openmv
hostlinux, aarch64
intentBudget memory for running a multi-megabyte model on an OpenMV N6
projecthidden
date2026-08-19
statusworking

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