About two years ago I got an idea of gathering information about AArch64 SoCs. Mostly to have a place to show how many of them are still using outdated v8.0 cpu cores.
During those years many things changed. And there were funny moments too.
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More and more things move to a cloud.
Times when people used traditional servers have passed.
Who did not heard such sentences in previous years? So time for me to move to the cloud as well.
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Arm laptops for normal users?
There are discussions in development circles about Arm powered laptops since forever. But most of time they do not mention “normal” users. Like your parents, spouses, kids who are not developers. People who turn computer on (cold boot or from suspend does not matter) and expect them to “just work”.
I had some fun with FriendlyELEC NanoPC-T6
At work I spend most of time on SBSA Reference Platform. Especially in firmware part (Arm Trusted Firmware also known as TF-A and Tianocore EDK2 also known as UEFI). However, for some time, I have felt the need to experiment with some UEFI-related task on existing hardware.
I first searched for “affordable” SystemReady SR system. But options were either Ampere Altra or NVIDIA Grace, both prices at 3000 EUR or more.
So I looked at the budget market and bought a FriendlyELEC NanoPC-T6 SBC.
Linaro Connect MAD24
Nowadays we have only one Connect per year. And this year we met in Madrid, Spain.
How did it go for me? Good, better than the previous one.
Twenty years of OpenEmbedded membership
There are memberships I forgot about. Some of them remind from time to time with “we have changed rules” mail. Which usually are moments when I remove account from their system.
And there are memberships I remember never mind if I use them on not anymore.
One of them is OpenEmbedded.
ConfigurationManager in EDK2: just say no
During my work on SBSA Reference Platform I have spent lot of time in firmware’s code. Which mostly meant Tianocore EDK2 as Trusted Firmware is quite small.
Writing all those ACPI tables by hand takes time. So I checked ConfigurationManager component which can do it for me.
DT-free EDK2 on SBSA Reference Platform
During last weeks we worked on getting rid of DeviceTree from EDK2 on SBSA Reference Platform. And finally we managed!
All code is merged into upstream EDK2 repository.