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Nitpicking the submission title ("ARM7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month"): ARM7 is actually very old ARM cores running ARMv4; these servers are ARMv7.
by m_eiman 11y ago
Nitpicking the submission title ("ARM7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month"): ARM7 is actually very old ARM cores running ARMv4; these servers are ARMv7.
- Gedrovits 11y agoFixed this up, sorry, don't have a lot of knowledge about ARM architecture.
- moe 11y agoTangential rant: What is wrong with CPU manufacturers in particular? What do they gain from giving everything the most confusing names possible? Sockets LGA1155, LGA1150, LGA1151. CPUs only differentiated by a jumble of digits anymore. Something is seriously wrong with your product naming strategy when it needs to be clarified that ARM7 != ARMv7.
- zymhan 11y agoIntel uses the letters to indicate the type of connection between the CPU and motherboard. So LGA = Land Grid Array [1]. The number is the number of pins/contacts connecting the CPU to the motherboard. So LGA1155 is a Land Grid Array Socket with 1,155 pins. It's definitely not random, at least not with Intel. ARM is confusing as hell though. Part of the issue is that there is the ARM Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that has different versions, and then there are different ARM CPU architectures, but those two don't necessarily need to correspond. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_grid_array https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_grid_array
- moe 11y agoSo LGA1155 is a Land Grid Array Socket with 1,155 pins. Their scheme may be somewhat internally consistent (until they change it again next year). The information it conveys remains completely useless. Nobody cares about the number of pins on a socket or which "generation" a CPU belongs to. We want to know which CPU is compatible to which socket, and how CPUs compare on their key metrics. So here's a useful naming scheme: Sockets should be called S1, S2, S3 [...] CPUs should be called: S1-8-40W-PM15000 That would be an 8 core CPU for Socket S1 that draws 40W and scores PassMark 15000. If Intel & co insist on making us sift through hostile numeric identifiers then they should at least make them useful.
- sweetcakes_2600 11y agoIs everyone able to fix submission title on HN now or do you have some special status (e.g. mod or high karma)?
- Redoubts 11y agoWell, he is the OP.
- kdeldycke 11y agoTo be even more specific, these CPU are produced by Marvell under the name Armada 370/XP (according /proc/cpuinfo), and are based on ARM's Cortex A9 design (source: https://scaleway.com/faq/server/#-Why-did-you-choose-ARM https://scaleway.com/faq/server/#-Why-did-you-choose-ARM ).
- Marat_Dukhan 11y agoAccording to /proc/cpuinfo, CPU Implementer is 0x56 ('V' = Marvell) and CPU part is 0x584 (Marvell Armada XP). This is most likely not Cortex A9 (which would have CPU Implementer == 0x41 and CPU part == 0xC09), but Marvell's own PJ4 microarchitecture.
- kdeldycke 11y agoMaybe yes. I'm not part of the hardware team so I can't really tell. Was just quoting the FAQ here.