Hi, 2011/11/4 Lev Serebryakov <l...@freebsd.org>: > Hello, Arnaud. > You wrote 4 ноября 2011 г., 6:30:18: > >> $89, 700MHz Cortex A8, 256MB DRR2, micro-SD. However, do not expect >> being able to run FreeBSD on it before a few years :) > What is so special about A8? We have some ARM code in tree, is Cortex > SO different from previous architectures? As far as I understand, main > problem in such platforms is different perefireal devices on each next > chop and board, which doesn't have "common denominator" like PCI bus > or other standard pieces, which helps a lot on PC (x86, amd64) architecture. > > BTW, we have infrastructure for crypto accelerators ;-) > Yes, my bad.
> And what about NUMA... I know only one (almost-general-purpose) OS, > which has full support for NUMA. It is Sun^WOracle Solaris. Ant it > does it very well (not to forget about boxes like SunFire 25K with 72 > 2-core sockets at, as fa as I remember, 18 processor-memory boards). > > I participated in project, which added NUMA support to Sun JVM > HotSpot, and Solaris was only one which gives us all needed > information -- nor Linux nor Windows either had not needed API two > years ago, and as far as I know, there is no big changes in this area > for them (but I could be wrong). > FWIW, referring to the technology two years ago in computer science is just like referring to the Prehistory to make a point about mankind today :/ - Arnaud _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
