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by andreiw 9y ago
Qualcomm just released a server chip, broaching a new market for them. And that chip is a serious pain in the ass for Intel. Why would they want to be bought by Avago, which itself divested of Broadcom’s Arm server effort earlier (which rec
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by andreiw 9y ago
Incidentally, still the only Cortex-A72 design out there. And for what you get, the A8040 and A7040-based solutions have a ridiculous low max power consumption of like 30-20 Watts.
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by andreiw 9y ago
Easy. SoftIron.com. No quotes, just order. Also, calling is easy. https://www.phoenicselectronics.com will sell you a Gigabyte MT30-GS2 (Cavium ThunderX 32-core) 1U system for around $2k. If you want to provide your own ATX case
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by andreiw 9y ago
RISC-V may do that tomorrow, but Arm servers are doing that today. You how a wide range of solutions with different CPUs in a variety of formats and compute power, from uCPE and IOT gw boxes all the way to high-density OCP designs with tera
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by andreiw 9y ago
Actually, the Arm server space is solving this problem through standardization. These are the SBSA and SBBR specs. All systems from different vendors will look the same way to the OS and boot thr same way as x86 servers. You will be able to
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by andreiw 9y ago
I thought Itanic was just a really smart diversionary tactic to kill off HP-PA (HP), MIPS (SGI) and Alpha (DEC/Compaq) development. It worked, and it didn't matter that Itanic was itself on borrowed time. The later is further proo
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by andreiw 9y ago
Intel also utterly failed in the mobile space, IoT things and are setting themselves up for failure in edge computing. What's one more thing to fail at?
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by andreiw 9y ago
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Unclear what AMD thought they stood to gain with the Monday announcement - and it didn't take long to have it play out in their disfavor. I'm guessing Intel's GPU will n
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by andreiw 9y ago
In many ways UEFI on x86 resulted in a loss of firmware talent across the board since all OEMs were basically doing is selling Intel reference platforms, with Intel's UEFI drivers for everything on top of a "proprietary" firm
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by andreiw 9y ago
99% of all UEFI implementations are derived from EDK2/UDK. "official" firmware from companies like Aptio build on top of this code. Truth is, motherboard vendors don't have the skill set to deliver firmware. You are doin
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by andreiw 9y ago
Yep, this talks about EDK1-based development. These days, you can also build Tiano Core EDK2 on Unix-like systems with GCC, and target Arm and AArch64. Like the EDK, there is still an Nt32 simulation target. Unlike EDK, EDK2 has real builda
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by andreiw 9y ago
And we all know how well that worked out for Motorola Mobility. Especially for its fungible "people resources".
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by andreiw 9y ago
Like everything that's nice in theory, in practice rebasing is the only way to keep your sanity. It may be used in a quilt-like manner to apply your own changes to a foreign code base. For example, this is useful to develop features be
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by andreiw 9y ago
Yes, along with the 2nd and now 3rd generation of ARM server solutions from the known players...there's just no excuse for nVidia to make the TX1/TX2 software system so closed and non-compliant.
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by andreiw 9y ago
When are these things going to become SBBR compliant? I am not even going as far as asking for an XHCI controller that doesn't require a blob to act as an XHCI controller (although this could well be hidden by firmware), but adopting a
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by andreiw 9y ago
Uh, sure it does. Whatchu talkin' about?
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by andreiw 9y ago
your commits don't have to be perfect, but maintaining good commit hygiene (no multiple change contexts in one commit) will work wonders... giving up on source control means having no means to roll back changes to a known good point in
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by andreiw 9y ago
I wish Supermicro had a similar chassis around the Cavium ThunderX. That would make a lot of sense for network-attached storage, regardless of whether one goes with SATA or drops in a SAS adapter or two. Does anyone know if any of the Caviu
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by andreiw 9y ago
More like why not. It's still a very modern OS, in many ways unique, and with a large install base that pays well.
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by andreiw 9y ago
These dudes are insane in a good way. Also, their earlier slide decks had more diagrams and even screenshots.
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by andreiw 9y ago
The border agents themselves were friendly enough to put up with my cranky self and the screaming kid after a 10 hour flight. The rest of that airport is a complete disaster, compared to places like Schiphol. This especially concerns the re
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by andreiw 9y ago
Confused. On a planetary scale, it would result in a net loss of diversity. Let's take it to the extreme and claim the Japanese completely die out as an ethnic group. Why would the diversity increase?
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by andreiw 9y ago
Why would the loss of ethnic identity in Japan not be a bad thing? It would be a loss for diversity.
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by andreiw 9y ago
Cap'n Obvious here, but immigration by non-Japanese in face of falling Japanese demographics will ultimately result in a country that's not really Japan anymore. That's probably a fact of life, if you consider societies to be
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by andreiw 9y ago
Sweet, thanks dude.
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by andreiw 9y ago
Will you ever put it up? Did you tackle dynamic linking? How did you abstract the syscall interface (i.e. how did you choose syscall numbers...take the x64 ones or the new "standard" ones shared by all modern ports?)
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by andreiw 9y ago
Good old days. I remember trying to shoehorn Slackware onto an IBM PS/2 m55 with 2.9mb RAM. Unluckily for me, it was an MCA system with an ESDI disk, with the MCA support very experimental, and I ended using a parport ZIP100 to help wi
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by andreiw 9y ago
Scaling down is hard. Look at OpenPower. They are feeling the heat from Xeons and know they need to scale and price down, and yet the scale-out Power9 SKU won't be out for what, another year? And how long until actual OCP gear ships, w
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by andreiw 9y ago
Yeah, honestly at the time of the Danger purchase, Danger wasn't that dangerous. It was mostly a manufacurer of really dweeby phones, sorry, hip-tops, that seemed more like a nod to the men's waist packs of the 90s.
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by andreiw 9y ago
It is completely relevant. Basically, you can now replace aging Windows PCs with VDI hosted on ARM clouds, and people won't know or be able to tell a difference. You will now have x86 Win32 apps, arm64 Win32 apps, and UWP running on wh

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