In 2012 I wrote “What interest me in ARM world” post. Listed hardware I played with and some words about what I was looking for.
Decided that it is time to write 2025 one. About AArch64.
Future of BSA/PC-BSA/SBSA checklist page
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.
Leaving Linaro for 3rd 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.
Two years of AArch64 features table
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 Mostly to have a place to show how many of them are still using outdated v8.0 cpu cores.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.
Powered by Arm
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.
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.