Ironically, these servers will only ever run Linux, and we have complete control over that platform. Windows is irrelevant to the ARM server. It's a unique position in history and we're not thinking how to both benefit from and also optimize for that case.
What confuses me the most: why is there this fixation with adding complexity to firmware? Surely the kernel code is easier to work with. Is it the kernel process? Skills? Or something else?
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ARM Server and Linux versus the rest
Date: 2014-09-18 01:37 am (UTC)What confuses me the most: why is there this fixation with adding complexity to firmware? Surely the kernel code is easier to work with. Is it the kernel process? Skills? Or something else?