Intel's disruption is now complete

Re:Intel's disruption is now complete by raverbashing on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:04PM (#25093593)

Interesting that you mention page size, IMHO 4k was small even 10 years ago. Though of course the next bump is 4M which I think might be too big for most apps

Apparently ARM supports 4KB, 64KB and 1MB (I just googled that)

Also maybe all the x86 crud might be finally taking its toll (and not just the ISA but all the cruft that got on top of it for 40yrs+ like legacy buses and functionalities, ACPI, or even the overengineered mess that's UEFI)

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Re:Intel's disruption is now complete by jeffbee on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:23PM (#25093752)

All the legacy junk that's actually on the CPU is tiny. Even the x86 instruction decode you could lose in a corner of a 512x512 FMA unit.

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Re:Intel's disruption is now complete by my123 on Saturday November 14, 2020 @02:13PM (#25094758)

16KB page size is what arm64 macOS and iOS on Apple A9 onwards use.

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Re:Intel's disruption is now complete by CountSessine on Saturday November 14, 2020 @02:22PM (#25094833)

There’s nothing wrong with ACPI - in fact it’s what’s going to enable ARM in the server space. Without something like ACPI, you need customized kernels and other crap to control system devices. ACPI is actually quite nice. And it replaced something (APM) that really was legacy cruft (dropping into real mode for power management?!! Ugh!)

EFI doesn’t seem that bad either. Maybe something like uboot would suit you better? But the reason we have those nice graphical bios utilities now is because of EFI.

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