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Re: Any good ARM based hardware for NetBSD fileserver



tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 12:22:23PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
>> 
>> tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
>> >I'd like to have a fileserver only, running NetBSD, so since it needs
>> >only a CPU, no floating point unit, no GPU and should not be another
>> >electric heater, an ARM based one comes to mind.
>> 
>> I have a lot of ARM systems but my fileserver is an x86 HP MicroServer.
>> 
>> Prefer having ECC RAM on something like this.
>
>Can you elaborate? Because ECC for RAM is specified Cortex-R7 Technical
>Reference for example. So ECC is available, for me, on ARM?

Most cheap ARM systems have their RAM soldered to the PCB, so even if
the CPU supports ECC the system can't use it.


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