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Re:Ampere EMAG 64bit Arm Workstation by floatboth on Sunday March 31, 2019 @09:10AM (#19535383)
Hi, I posted a comment on cnx-software but it's awaiting moderation, reposting here:

> work with Linaro on the work they did for the MCBin to get a UEFI plugin that uses a QEMU emulation layer for supporting booting Video Card BIOS

Linaro? I thought the EDK2 for the MCbin was maintained by Semihalf :)

Anyway, 16 cores and dual-channel RAM for $500 is a lot more interesting than 4 cores and single-channel for $269. A few questions:

Will the EDK2 tree be fully open source? There was that one blob on the MCbin…

Will the core be overclockable?

Re:Ampere EMAG 64bit Arm Workstation by linux4kix on Sunday March 31, 2019 @10:34AM (#19535777)
Semihalf is maintaining the tree and patches, but I believe the original work done to support using a GPU on the platform was done by Linaro. I could be mis-remembering but I believe that is how things happened.

We are waiting for the final release of the EDK2 tree from NXP. I will refrain from promising anything until that is integrated.

The cores are not overclockable. 2.2Ghz will be the limit.