Re:Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip”
by koffiezet on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:41AM
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Have you ever looked at beaglebones? TI's support is pretty nice in my experience, and the hardware is a LOT more solid and reliable. Certainly the USB stack has been a weak point on the RPi, which is problematic since the ethernet adapter is USB.
For most embedded work which needs to be reliable, the RPi is to much designed to a price, with enough tradeoffs making it an unattractive and ultimately more expensive option. In a PoC we did, we had to replace RPi's weekly in the field, racking up intervention costs. This completely disappeared the moment we switched to beaglebones.
I quite like the RPi for what it is, a cheap & fun platform offering a lot of possibilities to the masses, but I wouldn't consider it to be a serious embedded platform to target you can depend on. But I've used it as a video/slideshow player in real-world situations, where if they'd drop out, there aren't any real consequences (which most of the time were cards failing, and yes, the root-fs was read-only...)
For most embedded work which needs to be reliable, the RPi is to much designed to a price, with enough tradeoffs making it an unattractive and ultimately more expensive option. In a PoC we did, we had to replace RPi's weekly in the field, racking up intervention costs. This completely disappeared the moment we switched to beaglebones.
I quite like the RPi for what it is, a cheap & fun platform offering a lot of possibilities to the masses, but I wouldn't consider it to be a serious embedded platform to target you can depend on. But I've used it as a video/slideshow player in real-world situations, where if they'd drop out, there aren't any real consequences (which most of the time were cards failing, and yes, the root-fs was read-only...)