Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 10:57:25 -0800 From: Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> To: nowhere <florence44638@caliopea.com>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Durable/serious arm hardware ? Message-ID: <20170122185725.5791826.41144.19181@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45d41ec7-3004-ea6c-560e-50bdff9b997a@caliopea.com> References: <45d41ec7-3004-ea6c-560e-50bdff9b997a@caliopea.com>
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Sorry about the top post, my computer is in a box.=C2=A0 Have you looked at the products from Netgate?=E2=80=8E They are the sponsor= for PFSense and Jim Thompson is somewhat regular on this list. They have n= ew product based on an arm board, but also have some nice SOHO stuff based = on low power x86 boards. =E2=80=8E As Ian pointed out there are dozens of manufacturers and many SOMs/SBC are = not for consumers, but you need to be able to specify the hardware you want= and order in bulk. Many have dev boards but good luck getting complete har= dware support without some effort.=C2=A0 That said, =C2=A0I've had good luck with my solid run hummingboard (dev bas= e board) and their SOM but there is much unsupported hardware still. They u= sed to sell a case for it too.=C2=A0 If this is for work, Netgate may be your best option because it will come w= ith a warranty and all the rest.=C2=A0 Russ Sent=C2=A0from=C2=A0my=C2=A0BlackBerry=C2=A010=C2=A0smartphone=C2=A0on=C2= =A0the=C2=A0Virgin=C2=A0Mobile=C2=A0network. =C2=A0 Original Message =C2=A0 From: nowhere Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2017 2:26 AM To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Durable/serious arm hardware ? Hello I'd like to hear from the most skilled of you, if anybody knows serious=20 arm based hardware or share this though : I'm becoming convinced that=20 theses hardware (arm based) are just the consumable-smartphone fashion=20 counterpart for kids and leisures or tests. Not really final and=20 carefully finished products; abble to works for years or a decade; doing=20 is job in a office corner, being forgotten by anyone, like some of my=20 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=20 with debian, it never booted on freebsd (I even tried netbsd): I just=20 trashed it yesterday (bought in 2014 i think). 1 Beagleboneblack : works fine for weeks then freeze suddenly. And=20 sometimes did not event reboot (*): had to loop-reset it until boot=20 process go to the end. Seem the most "workable" product so far.. (bought=20 in 2015) 1 olimex a20-lime2-emmc: my most recent buy. It did not event boot with=20 network with it's own debian sd card... (I did not yet take time to make=20 it's own freebsd sd card): (bought in 2016-07). My goals, for example, with theses boards were to give some of my nomads=20 customers, a box with an autonomous dhcp/dns/vpn server on theyr=20 networks, without the need to change anything else than disabling their=20 dhcp servers for instance : I think a Quad xeon racked server is a bit=20 too much for theses tasks; I was using pfsence on pcengines boards=20 before to do this kind of things. Since my conclusions are based only on theses 3 boards, I'd like to hear=20 from thoses of you who works daily with these boards, and thoses opinion=20 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;=20 Not a damaged emmc/sd card problem too: all my systems are=20 read-only-root based: seems to really be an hardware issue. _______________________________________________ freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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