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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by pjmlp on Friday October 31, 2025 @04:58AM (#45769815)
With the caveat that ARM isn't a industry standard like PC has become, thus while propritary OSes can thrive, FOSS has a much higher challenge other than OEM specific distros or downstream forks.

Stuff like this, https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Microsoft-Corporation/dp/15723171...

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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by antonkochubey on Friday October 31, 2025 @06:46AM (#45770548)
There are the Arm SystemReady and ServerReady requirements/specifications that enable generic board support by the OSes.
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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by pjmlp on Friday October 31, 2025 @06:56AM (#45770616)
Thanks, I thought we were still on device trees and little else.
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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by jakogut on Friday October 31, 2025 @09:31AM (#45771792)
Practically speaking, very few systems actually support SystemReady. There's an experimental port of edk2 for the Raspberry Pi, but some hardware is unavailable when using it.
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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by jabl on Friday October 31, 2025 @11:02AM (#45772750)
The ARM server platforms seem quite decent here? But yeah, pick any small dev board and I suspect it looks quite different.
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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by pezezin on Saturday November 01, 2025 @06:29AM (#45780610)
It's weird that the book is titled "PC98", because PC-98 usually refers to NEC's line of x86 but not IBM PC compatible computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-98

Which I think reinforces your argument: there were non-standard x86 platforms, but thankfully they died out. Given the situation of the home computer industry during the 8 and 16-bit eras, it is a small miracle that we ended up having an open industry standard.

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