opteron a1100 arm

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 03:21:03PM -0600, Jim Thompson wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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A board like this will allow portmgr to provide official and regular package
built for arm! so yes for sure we do need to support that!

regards,
Bapt
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