Re: arm64 as Tier 1 for FreeBSD 13

Dennis Clarke via freebsd-arm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2020-01-30 08:07, Bob Bishop wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> On 29 Jan 2020, at 21:36, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> --------
>> In message <[email protected]>, Emmanuel Vadot writes:
>>
>>>> RPi's are a LOT easier to get hold of for hackers and in particular
>>>> for educators.

Well popular is a factor I guess. The noisey masses.

However the most powerful and most common RISC platform on the planet
Earth is the IBM POWER9 and that is where FreeBSD server style OS should
work flawlessly. With NVidia driver support for CUDA applications. Any
other considerations for a server style OS would be merely giving the
masses a hug for no great benefit in functionality.


-- 
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
GreyBeard and suspenders optional


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