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Did ARM ever get a formalized platform? I remember reading that one of the major issues with adoption of ARM was that there wasn't a common platform for the CP
by cptskippy 10y ago
Did ARM ever get a formalized platform? I remember reading that one of the major issues with adoption of ARM was that there wasn't a common platform for the CPU to interface with external devices. It was all custom and proprietary which is fine for embedded systems but not so good for desktops or consumer grade PCs.
Is that no longer the case?
- raverbashing 10y agoWell, plugging things directly on the processor bus is something that is "out of fashion" since the ISA days (in the PC world at least)
- cptskippy 10y agoRight but isn't it also advantageous from a low power perspective because it reduces the number of chips and over all power profile of the device?
- ashitlerferad 10y agoIt did but only for servers: http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-ecosystem-collaborates-to-deliver-initial-server-platform-standard.php http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-ecosystem-collaborates...
- cptskippy 10y agoSo is that perhaps the reason why there has been little adoption or investment from OEMs into producing standardized boards?
- rwmj 10y agoYes, sort of. The other problem, shared with 32 bit ARM, is that there are billions of shitty Android chips made each year, and it's very easy to take one of these, slap it into a development board, add a proprietary kernel with random blobs, and sell it for $50. These crowd out properly designed server hardware, or anything that cares about freedom, upstream Linux, maintainability, virtualization, etc.