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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by raverbashing on Saturday June 20, 2020 @12:41PM (#23584868)
I assume the drivers might have a lot of specific x86 optimizations, so it's easy (but not too easy)

I'm not sure how's the status of PCI-X on Arm machines at the moment as well. Do PCs still have the North and South bridge to interface to multiple devices?

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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by kcb on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:47PM (#23586594)
All CPUs are pretty much SOCs now. The chipsets are basically just fancy PCI-E switches with peripherals attached like USB and SATA controllers.
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