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Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:09:46 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com>
Cc:        Thomas Zander <riggs@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, =?ISO-8859-1?B?Qy4gQmVyZ3N0cvZt?= <cbergstrom@pathscale.com>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: opteron a1100 arm
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On 4 February 2014 16:35, Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 4, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On 02/04/14 16:49, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> In message <52F16BA4.4060202@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. :)


-a



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