From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Sun Jan 22 16:49:46 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D3A8CBD2AB for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 16:49:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from gromit.dlib.vt.edu (gromit.dlib.vt.edu [128.173.126.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "gromit.dlib.vt.edu", Issuer "Chumby Certificate Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C5B9BFB for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 16:49:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from mather.chumby.lan (c-71-63-91-41.hsd1.va.comcast.net [71.63.91.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gromit.dlib.vt.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 22D74566; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:49:37 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Subject: Re: Durable/serious arm hardware ? From: Paul Mather In-Reply-To: <45d41ec7-3004-ea6c-560e-50bdff9b997a@caliopea.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:49:37 -0500 Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <45d41ec7-3004-ea6c-560e-50bdff9b997a@caliopea.com> To: nowhere X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 16:49:46 -0000 On Jan 22, 2017, at 5:19 AM, nowhere wrote: > Hello >=20 > 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. >=20 >=20 > Those past years, I've bought 3 arm based devices : >=20 > 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). >=20 > 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) I am not the most skilled of us, but, FWIW, you can get an "industrial" = version of the BeagleBone Black. That might be more rugged for your = intended deployments. See, e.g., = http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/ELEMENT14-BBONE-BLACK-IND-4G-/83-170= 07 Cheers, Paul.=