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Subject: Re: Durable/serious arm hardware ?
From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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On Jan 22, 2017, at 6:35 AM, tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> wrote:

> On 22/01/2017 10:19, nowhere wrote:
>> 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
> I have 5 rpi boards:
>=20
> 1x rpi2+
> 3x rpi2B
> 1x rpi3
>=20
[[...]]
> I've had one of the pi2Bs as a (32-bit) mail server running exim which
> failed because of my above mentioned ignorance. The pi3 runs =
hardenedBSD
> entirely in 64bit and seems very stable unless I thrash the microsd by
> installing ports and not exporting $WORKDIR to external (and easily
> replacable) media, like a usb stick.
>=20
> I haven't been able to get vanilla freebsd/aarch64 running on the rpi3 =
yet.


I'm just curious, but with the RPi 3 having only 1 GB of RAM, what is =
the compelling advantage in running it in 64-bit mode?  (I've heard that =
64-bit applications can induce higher memory pressure.)  Is it a matter =
of providing a wide testing base for FreeBSD/arm64?

Cheers,

Paul.