HP ARM servers


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by crundy » Tue Nov 01, 2011 10:39 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15540910

Might be some good news for us. If HP start rolling out ARM based servers then a lot of Linux distros may start supporting ARM soon.
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by Skygod » Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:41 am
I just saw that article this morning and was about to post when I saw that it had already been done :-)

It appears that one of the main issues regarding the use of ARM processors is that many applications are being written for use in a 64 bit environment and at present ARM is only available in 32 bit.

Further reading at [url]http://www.calxeda.com/moonshot[/url]
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by moniliformis » Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:46 am
Skygod, ARMv8 will solve the problem.
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