opteron a1100 arm

[Jim Thompson]

On Feb 4, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Thomas Zander <riggs at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 4 Feb 2014 19:31, "Mark Felder" <feld at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014, at 12:13, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>> AMD just presented it's ARM based CPU and motherboard. is support in
>>> FreeBSD planned and what is it's status?
>>> 
>> 
>> Is it even available to purchase?
> 
> No but it may well be an early reminder of the upcoming generation of
> powerful ARM servers that we don't want to leave unsupported.

“may well be” isn’t that attractive when the 8-core, 64-bit Intel C2000 parts are here, now, at a lower TDP
(20W, .vs 25W for the a1100.  22nm rocks). 

When Intel moves the C2K series to 14nm later this year, the power savings will close the door.

The opteron a1100 samples in March, I wouldn’t expect boards before Summer.

Jim