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Date:      Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:29:50 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com>
Cc:        Thomas Zander <riggs@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: opteron a1100 arm
Message-ID:  <60555.1391549390@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <493DEB39-C4B4-409E-B8B2-B1B11E013754@netgate.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401311911120.2427@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1391538649.19169.79261269.3C5F49D1@webmail.messagingengine.com> <CAFU734xXWyc_TqBJ7e4MhD2nB01BAejR_1vT9%2B_5Ar5mJncncA@mail.gmail.com> <493DEB39-C4B4-409E-B8B2-B1B11E013754@netgate.com>

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In message <493DEB39-C4B4-409E-B8B2-B1B11E013754@netgate.com>, Jim Thompson wri
tes:

>> No but it may well be an early reminder of the upcoming generation of
>> powerful ARM servers that we don't want to leave unsupported.
>
>isn't that attractive when the 8-core, 64-bit Intel C20
>00 parts are here, now, at a lower TDP
>(20W, .vs 25W for the a1100.  22nm rocks). 

I very much welcome a competing 64bit CPU into the marketplace and
will buy one myself, as soon as I can, for no other reason than to
help break the X86 monopoly on server architecture.

Monopolies are never a good thing.

... Not even if they're FOSS software:  LLVM did wonders for the
GCC projects drive and attitude.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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