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by andreiw 9y ago
OSS (FOSS/FLOSS) and the current push to boutique vertical software stacks largely make ISA wars irrelevant. Right now if it runs Linux and does virtualization it is good enough, and organizations will buy gear based on other character
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by andreiw 9y ago
Intel manufacured 32-bit ARMv5 chips via a unit originally acquired from DEC in '97. It was sold to Marvell 10 years ago. It's hard to see how any of this would help Intel create competitive ARMv8 server-class chips, but you'
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by andreiw 9y ago
I'd say that even two years ago most mobile phones being sold were already ARMv8. That doesn't help with the SoC documentation, you're right that this has been a consistent weak spot. Usually documentation is offered up or it
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by andreiw 9y ago
Nothing is ever so simple, and I agree wih you that the sensationalism that pairs with schizo tech journalism, that seems to dash from one extreme to the next, is pretty tiring, with media analysts frequently glossing over important details
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by andreiw 9y ago
Great. When will this target ARMv8 64-bit 'A' profile chips?
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by andreiw 9y ago
So how come this throttling doesn't affect Airs that didn't encounter water bottles? What am I missing?
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by andreiw 9y ago
Well, that just about says everything you need to know about her tenure, more or less. There's no real reason she couldn't have influenced Yahoo's offering to improve in that direction, if it were that important.
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by andreiw 9y ago
Really cool. So if there 3 separate instances running, how do they stay in sync? Surely these 18 bytes are not everything? So you feed the same input to all 3 instances at the same emulated time?
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by andreiw 9y ago
So destroying America's manufacturing potential in everything from textiles, to electronics and heavy industries was all part of a scorched-earth secretive plan to fight Communism in China?
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by andreiw 9y ago
I dunno. Reading this article left a bad taste in my mouth. It wasn't the Chinese that turned a large portion of industrial America into a rusty meth-infused wasteland, yet it is the Chinese that are opening these factories. I applaud
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by andreiw 9y ago
UEFI? SBSA compliance?
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by andreiw 9y ago
It's a plausibly-deniable backdoor on top of LD_LIBRARY_PATH, just to clarify. As in - oops, I added the colon at the end, or if the LD_LIBRARY_PATH was programmatically generated, a sloppy loop can clearly do that...and now you'r
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by andreiw 9y ago
Of course, it will stay locked for a few. Is the IBM/COBOL crowd representative of today's compute resources? Not really. The same could be said about OS/2-powered ATMs and point of sale terminals. The fact of their continued
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by andreiw 9y ago
For one, it makes legacy x86 support in the upcoming ARM64 Windows SKU that much simpler and lighter weight, since there's less stuff to support (and a smaller address space to virtualize). Since every bit of software, in practice, alr
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by andreiw 9y ago
Thing is, that's slice of computing that gets progressively smaller, and both the upcoming Win10 on ARM64 laptop devices (with the BT for x86) and E5-competitive servers with Windows will take care of this enterprise segment.
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by andreiw 9y ago
But that's hardly really true anymore. A 64-bit x86 computer with UEFI and wihout a CSM, for example, has no way to boot DOS or even a 32-bit OS (which could then use v86) to support the really old legacy. You'd have to resort to
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by andreiw 9y ago
Man, whoever wrote this is tone-deaf...does Intel even understand, that barriers to emulating x86 might have worked in 90s and the aughts, but that it is completely irrelevant now? Does Intel understand, that considering the penetration of
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by andreiw 9y ago
you know, that's a pretty good plausibly-deniable backdoor, if you think about it... sounds like a pretty good thing to disable in ld.so...
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by andreiw 9y ago
I think in this case this is mostly having access to the right specs, and preferrably having spent time working on the controller firmware...
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by andreiw 9y ago
Cool. Where's the ARM64 linux build? That's more important than the legacy 32-bit ARM builds (i.e. ARM servers)
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by andreiw 9y ago
Wait, so the Go assembler allows generating invalid opcodes? Any way of using a more normal assembler with a non-GNU Go compiler?
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by andreiw 10y ago
I spent a minute looking at this and I still don't understand what is being offered. Is it a bluetooth HID device to pair to an emulator app? Is it an actual Z80-based system? Why is it called a ZX Spectrum? Because it looks like one?
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by andreiw 10y ago
Where's the ARM64 port going? I see that it's been stalled for a few years.
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by andreiw 10y ago
One thing that stands out over almost every other similar article is that there are alternative calling conventions available. That is - awesome. Not sure if this is something easily defined in a crate, or if it is intrinsic, but it is very
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by andreiw 10y ago
Seems to work well for me. I wish the routers themselves were a bit more rectangular (the height is a problem for fitting in certain spaces, and it's not very stable due to its narrow base). The dedicated back haul between satellite an
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by andreiw 10y ago
Not that odd. The NT group specifically wanted a portable design, and they made the right call to initially target i860, MIPS and only then i386 machines. Contrast that to OS/2 development - the (never shipped) PowerPC OS/2 port w
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by andreiw 10y ago
Binary translation / JIT. Like Apple did with Rosetta or like DEC did on Alpha NT with FX!32.
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by andreiw 10y ago
We're talking complete hypotethicals. When x64 was introduced, not only weren't there any consumer Itanium chips, but they weren't even hypothetical.
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by andreiw 10y ago
For servers - yes. And not just the 64-bit ISA, but the server specs/standards, the hardware ecosystem, OEM/ODM engagement...and software, of course! And conjecture - in the cloud it won't matter what arch you are on.
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by andreiw 10y ago
If you were talking about the mobile 32-bit world, you would be correct. The 64-bit world is very different. It is very homogeneous, it looks like an x64 server basically. Userspace actually wasn't ported that long ago. Fortunately now

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