opteron a1100 arm

[George Mitchell]

On 02/05/14 08:44, Jim Thompson wrote:
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>> On Feb 5, 2014, at 1:55, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling at kev009.com> wrote:
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>> Where A1100 wins hands down is memory capacity, and possibly even memory bandwidth (DDR4 mentioned in the PR..).
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>> Intel's server Atom chips and even the extremely powerful Xeon E3 are quite limited by 32GB RAM (and it's also somewhat expensive vs RDIMMs).
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> I'm not sure what your point is.
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> The C2750, C2550, C2558 & C2758 will all address 64 GB of DDR3 RAM.
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> You'll have to use Registered DIMMs and likely drop back to DDR3 to get to 128GB on the A1100.
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> So I see parity in terms of addressable RAM.
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> [...]

This discussion is very entertaining.  But let's not lose sight of the
main point: ARM processors are not going away.  It is to FreeBSD's
detriment if we don't have Tier 1 support for a processor that, by some
guesses, already comprises the majority of new installations by count.
-- George