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Also, when you can get your hands on a ARM motherboard, will you be able to boot mainline Linux or only some ancient kernel version that the vendor has patched
by majewsky 9y ago
Also, when you can get your hands on a ARM motherboard, will you be able to boot mainline Linux or only some ancient kernel version that the vendor has patched with their own binary drivers?
- Aissen 9y agoMainline only. Also, it's supported in RHEL: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-introduces-arm-server-support-red-hat-enterprise-linux https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-introduces-arm-server...
- imtringued 9y agoServers don't need a Mali GPU which is the major bottleneck to support mainline linux. I'm constantly amazed by people wanting to see Intel die for a minor price decrease. The open source drivers for intel gpus might have not been provided by intel but at the very least they exist. The same cannot be said by ARM. When it comes to proprietary software ARM is at least as evil as intel. By replacing intel with ARM you're going from bad to worse.
- walrus01 9y agoAgreed, and Intel actually had a track record of really good open source driver support for important stuff that is not GPU. Example, 11+ years ago when a single 10 gigabit NIC cost $6000, Intel had their own staff write and submit freebsd and Linux kernel drivers for their first gen card. The same has continued up until now if you look at the Linux kernel commits for Intel network interfaces.