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He didn't even discuss the every ARM board being a snow flake needing its own BSP, custom bootloader, OS distro etc. I am fine with x86 being successful - ther
by blinkingled 8y ago
He didn't even discuss the every ARM board being a snow flake needing its own BSP, custom bootloader, OS distro etc.
I am fine with x86 being successful - there are good reasons for it. I don't get why there's this ARM push in the PC and servers market. It's not making anything better.
- nfriedly 8y agoYea, ARM really needs some standardization around that area.
- kllrnohj 8y ago> I don't get why there's this ARM push in the PC and servers market. It's not making anything better. What push? There's a rumor that Apple might make an ARM-based laptop, and there's a bit of dabbling with ARM-based servers, but there doesn't seem to be any real push for it. More like hedging bets if Intel continues to shit the bed on 10nm. Except AMD's Epyc looks to be the real contingency plan for that now anyway. I don't see any reason to expect Apple's motivations for using ARM (more control over hardware) would apply to anyone else, and Apple is the only one with an ARM CPU design that is even worth discussing in a laptop anyway. So... I wouldn't expect the other 90% of the laptop market to follow, much less any of the desktop/workstation market.
- blinkingled 8y agoPush might have been a little strong word - but I was referring to server vendors selling ARM based servers (HPE Moonshot), Amazon making ARM instances available, MS having Windows Server for ARM etc. Looks like it's just a plan B type thing or throw it out there and see what it does thing.