I was pretty hyped up for ARM for it's RISC architecture

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2016-07-14 04:45:24 Post No.
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Anonymous 2016-07-14 04:45:24 Post No. [Report]

I was pretty hyped up for ARM for it's RISC architecture and low power usage (I was thinking of making me a meme handheld with my own tiny OS) but then I find out:
>most boards come with unreplaceable firmware
>almost every component has a separate backdoor OS (ThreadX for VideoCore in Aspieberry Pi for example)
>SoC producers try to lock down every single piece in fear someone will understand their shitty design and find their botnet
>can't compile your own kernels, can't get decent OpenGL performance, can't do shit because of the lockdowns
x86
>can replace firmware
>everything is accesible thru memory mapping and port i/o (except some ethernet and video cards but that's none of intel's fault, they got FOSS drivers for iGPU)
>top performance
why wouldn't Intel deserve it's monopoly? try not to get up in your feelings and respond logically

Anonymous 2016-07-14 05:01:39 Post No.55566537
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Anonymous 2016-07-14 05:01:39 Post No.55566537 [Report]

poo in loo xd

Anonymous 2016-07-14 08:35:01 Post No.55568642
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Anonymous 2016-07-14 08:35:01 Post No.55568642 [Report]

IIRC isn't the specs of ARM open source?

If that's true I can imagine it's so the competitors don't get a hold of their optimizations and cannibalize each other

Anonymous 2016-07-14 11:17:21 Post No.55569870
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Anonymous 2016-07-14 11:17:21 Post No.55569870 [Report]

>>55566328
Its Qualcomm's fault, someone needs to leak their PBL that's printed onto the chip.

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Anonymous 2016-07-14 14:17:05 Post No.55571608
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Anonymous 2016-07-14 14:17:05 Post No.55571608 [Report]

Agreed that these are real issues, but they aren't really ARM's fault. ARM is still a much nicer ISA than x86/amd64.

Anyone have suggestions for a non-shit ARM dev board?

Anonymous 2016-07-14 14:28:12 Post No.55571751
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Anonymous 2016-07-14 14:28:12 Post No.55571751 [Report]

>>55571608
Aw man, Cortex-M3/M4 is so good for learning, MIPS maybe?

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>>55571608
>ARM is still a much nicer ISA than x86/amd64.
Nope intel pretty much killed ARM for servers with Xeon-D.

Pic related has desktop i7 multi-core performance and a max TDP of just 45W. ARM literally has nothing to compete against this in performance or energy efficiency.

You have to remember x86 is no longer 100% CISC, just basically a RISC cores with CISC interpreters.

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