Random mumblings of ARM developer
During last years Arm released some specifications in an effort to help organise standardise their market. We got Server Base System Architecture (SBSA), then Base System Architecture (BSA) and finally PC Base System Architecture (PC-BSA) one. Both SBSA and PC-BSA extend BSA (SBSA 7.0 was rebased on top of BSA).
Did these documents changed the market? That’s a discussion for another time.
Some time ago I was informed that Red Hat will not prolong membership for Linaro DataCentre Group. Which for me means end of my 2nd adventure with Linaro.
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 Mostly to have a place to show how many of them are still using outdated v8.0 cpu cores.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.
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.
Powered by Arm cloud.
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”.
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.
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.
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.