Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:19:35 +0100 From: nowhere <florence44638@caliopea.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Durable/serious arm hardware ? Message-ID: <45d41ec7-3004-ea6c-560e-50bdff9b997a@caliopea.com>
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Hello I'd like to hear from the most skilled of you, if anybody knows serious arm based hardware or share this though : I'm becoming convinced that theses hardware (arm based) are just the consumable-smartphone fashion counterpart for kids and leisures or tests. Not really final and carefully finished products; abble to works for years or a decade; doing is job in a office corner, being forgotten by anyone, like some of my older freebsd servers wich are running for a decade now. Those past years, I've bought 3 arm based devices : 1 raspberry-pi , which was affected by the "micron-ram-chip" bug: except with debian, it never booted on freebsd (I even tried netbsd): I just trashed it yesterday (bought in 2014 i think). 1 Beagleboneblack : works fine for weeks then freeze suddenly. And sometimes did not event reboot (*): had to loop-reset it until boot process go to the end. Seem the most "workable" product so far.. (bought in 2015) 1 olimex a20-lime2-emmc: my most recent buy. It did not event boot with network with it's own debian sd card... (I did not yet take time to make it's own freebsd sd card): (bought in 2016-07). My goals, for example, with theses boards were to give some of my nomads customers, a box with an autonomous dhcp/dns/vpn server on theyr networks, without the need to change anything else than disabling their dhcp servers for instance : I think a Quad xeon racked server is a bit too much for theses tasks; I was using pfsence on pcengines boards before to do this kind of things. Since my conclusions are based only on theses 3 boards, I'd like to hear from thoses of you who works daily with these boards, and thoses opinion are based on far more than my hand counted experiences. PM. (*) I work with a 5V/5A (25w) psu: that's not an overloaded psu problem; Not a damaged emmc/sd card problem too: all my systems are read-only-root based: seems to really be an hardware issue.
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