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On one hand it's cool to have more effort into desktop CPUs (ie high single thread perf) that are not x86. On the other hand, although the ISA is public, I'm g
by obl 8y ago
On one hand it's cool to have more effort into desktop CPUs (ie high single thread perf) that are not x86.
On the other hand, although the ISA is public, I'm guessing the whole boot-process & platform will become more and more closed as apple moves towards custom chips all the way down.
Is there any chance you can still run linux on mac hardware in 5 years ?
- mattl 8y agoI could see them going Intel for pro and ARM for consumer.
- chrisper 8y agoI hope so. That way the hackintosh community won't die!
- mattl 8y agoPeople seem to occasionally need to run a Windows app.
- diroussel 8y agoYep. I see this too. Mac app store apps have been dual architecture for a long time. 32 bit and 64 bit. Adding ARM as another compilation target will take some work but is doable. Maybe they go to three architectures in the app store, or maybe they only support ARM after 32 bit is dead. Which works out nicely with the recent deprecation of 32 bit apps.
- Moto7451 8y agoSince the iOS simulator is an x86 target it might not need any work. Adding a compiler target for ARM OS X may just be a matter of allowing the configuration. Also, given the Intel OS X project was cooking long before they announced the transition, it’s likely safe to believe that full blown OS X on ARM is already running somewhere in a lab at Apple.
- tracker1 8y ago32bit is effectively dead... only need would be to support x64, and ARM. Which could be okay, so long as their cross-compilation works from pro. My biggest fear is they'll abandon Intel architecture altogether, which will be pretty bad for those of us relying on hackintosh desktops today. No idea where all the creative types will go if that happens. Apple could indeed be shooting themselves in the foot on this one.
- userbinator 8y agoI'm guessing the whole boot-process & platform will become more and more closed as apple moves towards custom chips all the way down. You make a very good point. The dominance of x86 is largely because it forms the long-standing open PC platform, which while Apple and others have been trying to remove "legacy" features from and lock down for a long time, still remains quite well-documented and open in comparison to smartphone/tablet SoCs that have next to no detailed public documentation at all.