opteron a1100 arm

[Jim Thompson]

On Feb 4, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 02/04/14 16:49, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <52F16BA4.4060202 at pathscale.com>, =?UTF-8?B?IkMuIEJlcmdzdHLDtm0i?= w
>> rites:
>> 
>>> Think about how much power interconnects takes, PCIe and everything else..
>> Not to mention the raw savings of avoiding all the crap that has
>> been nailed inexpertly onto the X86 platform over the years...
>> 
>> Did you notice that "X86 arduino" Intel just launched ?
>> 
>> Does anybody but me cringe at the thought of an Arduino with UEFI, ACPI,
>> microcode updates and SMM ticking away in the background to make sure
>> it doesn't run too hot ?
>> 
> 
> This AMD platform has UEFI and ACPI, so that's at least 2 out of 4...
> -Nathan

The “X86 arduino” (“Gallileo”) has a Quark 1100 SoC running at 400MHz.  It implements a 32-bit Pentium instruction set and has a TDP of 1.9W - 2.2W.

I don’t think it’s going to “run too hot”, and yes it runs SMM, UEFI and ACPI-compatible sleep states.