[geeks] New POWER9 motherboard coming out...

[Jordan Geoghegan]

On 2/7/19 8:00 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 21:33 Jordan Geoghegan <jgeoghegan60 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jgeoghegan60 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>     On 2/7/19 6:11 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>     > On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 5:28 PM Jordan Geoghegan
>     <jgeoghegan60 at gmail.com <mailto:jgeoghegan60 at gmail.com>>
>     > wrote:
>     >
>     >> I believe FreeBSD was looking at a little endian port to Power9 but
>     >> alas, I fear I may never again see a modern day browser or similar
>     >> behemoth run on a big endian arch. x86 is a cancer, and I fear
>     it may be
>     >> terminal at this point. There needs to be diversity for any
>     ecosystem to
>     >> thrive, and ARM certainly isn't the answer. It breaks my heart that
>     >> Oracle threw away SPARC. Oh how I yearn the days when nearly
>     every ISP,
>     >> telecom and datacenter ran their critical infrastructure on
>     SPARC and/or
>     >> Alpha.BB  Don't even get me started on SGI and hppa and god
>     forbid, PPC.
>     >>
>     > I eye-rolled so hard reading this, I think I might be cross-eyed
>     now.
>     >
>     > Pat
>     > _______________________________________________
>
>     Enjoy your x86 monoculture and Management Engine overlords.
>
>
> I guess I'll take the bait.
>
> What per se is wrong with ARM?
>
> Pat


Blobs are endemic in the ARM ecosystem. The lack of standardization,B  
and ability to modify / upgrade components is a major dealbreaker as 
well. Not to mention the various levels of fuckery regarding lack of 
standard bootloaders / initialization procedures. Etc.