opteron a1100 arm

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Tue Feb 4 23:37:43 UTC 2014


On 02/04/14 16:49, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <52F16BA4.4060202 at pathscale.com>, =?UTF-8?B?IkMuIEJlcmdzdHLDtm0i?= w
> rites:
>
>> Think about how much power interconnects takes, PCIe and everything else..
> Not to mention the raw savings of avoiding all the crap that has
> been nailed inexpertly onto the X86 platform over the years...
>
> Did you notice that "X86 arduino" Intel just launched ?
>
> Does anybody but me cringe at the thought of an Arduino with UEFI, ACPI,
> microcode updates and SMM ticking away in the background to make sure
> it doesn't run too hot ?
>

This AMD platform has UEFI and ACPI, so that's at least 2 out of 4...
-Nathan


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