Torben G. wrote: > The interesting thing is that the freeze happens even when the devices > I'm plugging in are *powered* USB hubs. One would assume that this > would prevent too much of a power draw to cause havoc, right?
It may not be about average power consumption but some momentary power consumption - though that's just speculation. > I just don't get why all of this works under Raspbian. It really > shouldn't, but it does. Pi hardware is made by a foundation sprung off Broadcom, a Fortune 500 corporation, presumably with access to Broadcom design capacity and/or knowledge. Pi hardware is extremely cost optimized, IMO recklessly so, causing a few reliability issues in the past. Some (maybe even significant?) effort is put into raspbian by the foundation but (I guess?) not into OpenBSD. When the hardware design is marginal software becomes critical for reliability. I personally would not use Pi for anything at all. Since mainline Linux now has Hantro support a RockChip SOC seems much better for video, especially since RockChip publish actual SOC documentation and Radxa publish complete board schematics. //Peter
