From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Sun Jan 22 11:35:42 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 215F9CBC2D2 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:35:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech-lists@zyxst.net) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EAFE8A26 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:35:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech-lists@zyxst.net) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F0C209C6 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 06:35:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 22 Jan 2017 06:35:40 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zyxst.net; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=Qr39jeuTIFtMch4 rUJIMMsIHveI=; b=aTjRDy92de5keVjU+ExXEx500L32XO9Jq+U80D5iOgRdTxM mVQ4/fFWd/5DaafUM51Mk/nxdkRqJc28AnPXHUqFJRTczQsfRl/eE0Cn0DE/cDNr PrSFqUNpOLzuGOPbPuFXo75ag7ksQfziwiDuo482rDaInUp0v24y5abllESM= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s= smtpout; bh=Qr39jeuTIFtMch4rUJIMMsIHveI=; b=FzCgfPdzMW6LqctkFQAl x7dQgyAPPosmIilq/0WEZj6T7fTM1/B5U46Vgxzo+vC1vr////ebm9wzKk6JP7B+ 2jrF9VEvBDz0nkjDr01SYWZJzdhL5VRWYGTiEg2Nlz85xMSptcbyU71VlI46LqvY WQzmXRyRLpysLWTNeYX804I= X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: O24iUUN282hD5FIxJ5FzwxdWu7HZx4vUYowCHp3kKGtO 1485084939 Received: from pumpkin.growveg.org (pumpkin.growveg.org [82.70.91.101]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B856924526 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 06:35:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Durable/serious arm hardware ? To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org References: <45d41ec7-3004-ea6c-560e-50bdff9b997a@caliopea.com> From: tech-lists Message-ID: <185dbbb3-15eb-b63a-799f-d209858257b9@zyxst.net> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:35:32 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <45d41ec7-3004-ea6c-560e-50bdff9b997a@caliopea.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 11:35:42 -0000 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). I have 5 rpi boards: 1x rpi2+ 3x rpi2B 1x rpi3 The rpis I treat (mainly) as single-purpose devices and for that they are (in my experience) very stable. The exception being the rpi3 which will be a (hardened) freebsd server for the internal network. Most of these pis are on 24/7. The pi3 is better suited than the pi2x for a server role. It would be worthwhile attaching a usb hd to the pi3 for data. Although I've worn out a few microsd cards, I think that's been caused by my own ignorance in not allocating external media for a busy filesystem. All the pi hardware still works though, and I've had the pi2+ abd 2B since they came out. 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. I haven't been able to get vanilla freebsd/aarch64 running on the rpi3 yet. -- J.