Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:22:41 -0500 From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: arm64 as Tier 1 for FreeBSD 13 Message-ID: <bb90a8d9-7df4-a404-0ec4-1c5d039c5a70@blastwave.org> In-Reply-To: <B1F155C4-5C20-4E33-9420-DF7D67253083@gid.co.uk> References: <CAPyFy2Aa6Uj0nyQ1Y_KPLd7%2BROJ4xW5i-SpctV1sRVK_BivPHw@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2D91v7SwjZOgMG0a9V%2BH6GVCF8NHKp341N8mwnCvA71cA@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2BP3hFHuFJyo2M-5pc0%2BCmRiyym1TZ81P5xicR4zED1JQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2BXWPVOJo%2BGOf83sZFrPHE80-QvdHeWrhi%2BTdj0KDnThg@mail.gmail.com> <17938.1575444597@critter.freebsd.dk> <20191204092402.GA82492@fuz.su> <D140BA2A-71F3-4574-9015-675950705AF2@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <78425.1580332298@critter.freebsd.dk> <20200129222907.3ccaf4c23fe8509e3f9cdfe4@bidouilliste.net> <84926.1580333803@critter.freebsd.dk> <B1F155C4-5C20-4E33-9420-DF7D67253083@gid.co.uk>
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On 2020-01-30 08:07, Bob Bishop wrote: > Hi, > >> On 29 Jan 2020, at 21:36, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >> >> -------- >> In message <20200129222907.3ccaf4c23fe8509e3f9cdfe4@bidouilliste.net>, Emmanuel Vadot writes: >> >>>> RPi's are a LOT easier to get hold of for hackers and in particular >>>> for educators. Well popular is a factor I guess. The noisey masses. However the most powerful and most common RISC platform on the planet Earth is the IBM POWER9 and that is where FreeBSD server style OS should work flawlessly. With NVidia driver support for CUDA applications. Any other considerations for a server style OS would be merely giving the masses a hug for no great benefit in functionality. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
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