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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by wmf on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:08PM (#28323887)
...until you can buy CPUs and motherboards independently

Ampere Altra is socketed; too bad the motherboard alone is ~$5,000.

standardized BIOS/hardware discoverability

This is solved with SBSA/ServerReady/SystemReady.

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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by p_l on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:32AM (#28325266)
Honeycomb in fact advertises (for a good reason) that they do have sensible platform firmware in place.
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