opteron a1100 arm

["C. Bergström"]

On 02/ 5/14 09:09 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 4 February 2014 16:35, Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 4, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>> The "X86 arduino" ("Gallileo") has a Quark 1100 SoC running at 400MHz.  It implements a 32-bit Pentium instruction set and has a TDP of 1.9W - 2.2W.
>>
>> I don't think it's going to "run too hot", and yes it runs SMM, UEFI and ACPI-compatible sleep states.
> We'd still have to port to that platform.
>
> I'd give it go if someone would ship me one. :)
If a few of these could be procured - I wonder if this is a good GSOC 
topic? Anyone know any students who might be interested?