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

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 2:05 PM Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 12:05:44AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
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> >  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.
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> I never thought I was pushing the limits, but maybe I am.

google dealt with this through massive redundancy, using inexpensive
machines.  they don't even bother to buy cases: just the motherboard,
HDD and power.  stack them up in pretty much home-made racks, not even
in 19U racks.

l.