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People have been wanting ARM servers since the first ones were announced. But there are two big problems. First, there is no unified boot- and device initialisa
by corty 6y ago
People have been wanting ARM servers since the first ones were announced. But there are two big problems. First, there is no unified boot- and device initialisation-standard. So you cannot just put in a bootable USB stick and expect it to work. Second, you can not reliably order any hardware, just very small series just above prototype stages...
- my123 6y ago> First, there is no unified boot- and device initialisation-standard. There is. UEFI + ACPI. > So you cannot just put in a bootable USB stick and expect it to work. That's how it works today for Arm servers. Windows on Arm platforms also use UEFI + ACPI, and ship with the bootloader unlocked.