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Then ARM should create and promote similar standards.

• egil 9mo ago
  They have the ServerReady compliance program for servers[0], but not for the plethora of SoC boards out there. [0] https://developer.arm.com/community/arm-community-blogs/b/architectures-and-processors-blog/posts/arm-announces-server-ready-program-for-arm-based-servers https://developer.arm.com/community/arm-community-blogs/b/ar...
• hakfoo 9mo ago
  I always wondered how ARM lost the plot there. Considering the original ARM use case was a desktop-computer shaped thing with some degree of expandability, they had to solve the same problems that the PC did in bringup/enumeration/device abstraction. These should be solved problems. At some point between Archimedes and iPhone, they lost this functionality. I assume there was a moment where they assumed that they were only doing SoCs with fixed peripherals and jettisoned all their knowledge and tooling in the space.
  • ajxs 9mo ago
    > ...lost the plot... > ...jettisoned all their knowledge and tooling in the space. ARM made a smart decision not to compete against Intel/AMD at the cutting edge, and instead completely dominated the low-power CPU market. > These should be solved problems. They are. The solutions have nothing to do with the ISA. The device discovery functionality you're talking about (ACPI/BIOS/etc) is provided by the motherboard, and (in the case of ACPI) made available to the OS by the bootloader. SoC's don't need sophisticated device discovery.