[libre-riscv-dev] chinese sponsor, looking to design an ECP5-based dev board

[Hendrik Boom]

On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 12:05:44AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> 
>  ECC is really for servers pushing the limits.  i appreciate that we,
> as engineers, think in terms of wanting the reliability. it just... it
> has a price.

I never thought I was pushing the limits, but maybe I am.

I'm considering a consumer-grade server.  With media going digital, 
including things like family snapshots, long-term preservation of data 
is becoming important.  Any time data is read into memory and written 
out again, data loss is possible, and in forty of fifty years it adds 
up.

Yes, of course one keeps backups, but backups of corrupted data are 
deadly.

This is why early detection is important -- one can avoid corrupted 
backups.  Correction?  Not so important -- one can always recover from 
another copy.

-- hendrik