Re: arm build hardware
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote (ao):
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Sander <sander@humilis.net> wrote:
> > I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. Why can't you just
> > use an usb-to-serial cable?
>
> reliability of the usb-to-serial cable. i.e. many people have found
> them to be utterly, utterly shit. to the extent that, it is
> well-known and *already* in the linux kernel source tree, for at least
> 18 months possibly more, that the support for e.g. GL830 usb-to-sata
Issues with usb-to-sata don't affect usb-to-serial, do they?
FWIW, I use a handful of
http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=UC232A and they've
never failed me, with arm and x86 as both source and destination. I have
an openrd-client (7x usb) in use as a consoleserver.
Sander
> IC actually has an algorithm "if chip crashes then reset it without
> notifying the user, repeat until success". trimslice used the GL830
> in one of their boxes (the one with the nvidia tegra), and it wasn't a
> good idea.
>
> on the other hand, some people have reported that if you pick the
> right usb-to-sata flash drive, you can get exceptional reliability.
> gordon on arm-netbooks did a write-up about 18 months ago - he's
> extremely knowledgeable.
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