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While we all want blob-free hardware like the Talos Power9 ... which is 100% blobless. Or the Cavium MIPS64 chips (100% blobless). Or if you want Arm64, the

While we all want blob-free hardware like the Talos Power9 ... which is 100% blobless. Or the Cavium MIPS64 chips (100% blobless). Or if you want Arm64, the Rockchip RK3399 (100% blobless). You have plenty of choices. One mitigation is to keep the device offline. Here's an even better mitigation: don't buy junk like this chip. Stop blobwashing junk hardware like this with deceptive misrepresentations.

transpute 2y ago
> Cavium MIPS64 Does that include the Cavium Plus CN5020 in Ubquiti EdgeRouter Lite? https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/ubiquiti/ubiquiti_edgerouter_lite https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/ubiquiti/ubiquiti_edgerouter_... https://www.insidegadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/CN5020.pdf https://www.insidegadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/CN5... I looked into running OpenBSD on ER3-Lite and was told that network routing performance was poor without a binary blob that ships in Ubiquiti router firmware. Cavium is owned by Marvell. > if you want Arm64, the Rockchip RK3399 (100% blobless). You have plenty of choices. The challenge is finding existing products that people can buy at retail. We're having this conversation in an HN thread about ECC. The only off-the-shelf Arm NAS (4xSATA, 2xM.2) that I've found with ECC + Debian is the QNAP above. I will look for an RK3399 SBC that supports ECC memory, 4xSATA and at least one NVME slot, which could be installed into a 1U NAS chassis. > Stop blobwashing junk hardware like this with deceptive misrepresentations. ECC is a high priority requirement for an Arm NAS. Would be delighted to find a blobless Arm SBC with ECC support and enough I/O channels for use in a NAS. Otherise, ECC trumps blobs for an offline NAS use case in a 1U chassis, which can be physically secured in a rack against physical tampering.

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While we all want blob-free hardware like the Talos Power9 ... which is 100% blobless. Or the Cavium MIPS64 chips (100% blobless). Or if you want Arm64, the

by karma_pharmer 2y ago

transpute 2y ago
> Cavium MIPS64 Does that include the Cavium Plus CN5020 in Ubquiti EdgeRouter Lite? https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/ubiquiti/ubiquiti_edgerouter_lite https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/ubiquiti/ubiquiti_edgerouter_... https://www.insidegadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/CN5020.pdf https://www.insidegadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/CN5... I looked into running OpenBSD on ER3-Lite and was told that network routing performance was poor without a binary blob that ships in Ubiquiti router firmware. Cavium is owned by Marvell. > if you want Arm64, the Rockchip RK3399 (100% blobless). You have plenty of choices. The challenge is finding existing products that people can buy at retail. We're having this conversation in an HN thread about ECC. The only off-the-shelf Arm NAS (4xSATA, 2xM.2) that I've found with ECC + Debian is the QNAP above. I will look for an RK3399 SBC that supports ECC memory, 4xSATA and at least one NVME slot, which could be installed into a 1U NAS chassis. > Stop blobwashing junk hardware like this with deceptive misrepresentations. ECC is a high priority requirement for an Arm NAS. Would be delighted to find a blobless Arm SBC with ECC support and enough I/O channels for use in a NAS. Otherise, ECC trumps blobs for an offline NAS use case in a 1U chassis, which can be physically secured in a rack against physical tampering.