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What I really wonder is if these new Snapdragon SoCs will be closer to what we're used to with PC hardware today. e.g.: Will we get SystemReady and the ability
by jchw 3y ago
What I really wonder is if these new Snapdragon SoCs will be closer to what we're used to with PC hardware today. e.g.: Will we get SystemReady and the ability to disable Secure Boot?
There doesn't seem to be any information regarding that, so I guess probably not. But after a lot of false starts, it does seem like competitive alternatives to x86 computers that are also more "open" PC platforms are probably happening in the imminent future. This would be nice.
I suspect that what isn't imminent is seeing stuff like this show up in desktop parts, but if it does, here's to hoping for modular main boards with DIMM slots.
- goosedragons 3y agoYou can disable Secure Boot on at least some of the existing Snapdragon-based ARM PCs already.
- my123 3y agoAll. Every single arm64 desktop machine supports disabling UEFI Secure Boot.
- FloatArtifact 3y agoHowever is there support cycle less than x86? Not only that there's a lot more fragmentation. Is there backward compatibility to run aprogram 6 years ago for an arm hardware that was released this year?
- almatabata 3y agoI might be missing some examples but the last breaking change i remember was the deprecation of the 32bit support: https://www.gsmarena.com/arm_will_drop_32bit_support_in_the_big_cortexa_cores_starting_in_2022-news-45688.php https://www.gsmarena.com/arm_will_drop_32bit_support_in_the_... I think ARM are clearly more comfortable breaking compatibility than Intel.