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Re:Alibaba Open Source XuanTie RISC-V Cores, Introduces In-H... by nuerow on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:19AM (#28940608)
For those who, like me, never heard of Poulsbo, it's a chipset for Intel's first generation of Atom processors.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/chipsets/poulsbo

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Re:Alibaba Open Source XuanTie RISC-V Cores, Introduces In-H... by baybal2 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:40AM (#28940749)
Poulsbo was disastrously bad, quirky, and impractical.

It took all x86 platform warts, and replaced it with even harder to get right "Poulsbo warts" like SFI, and etc.

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