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ARM finally defines a platform as it sets its sights on the server room
From http://arstechnica.com/information-t...e-server-room/
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There's never been a reason that it couldn't be done. It was just that all the little kingdoms decided to play by themselves. I imagine that the standardization of the boot block code will be similar to what's going on now, but ... well ... standardized. Some of the OSes on ARM set up a HAL (hardware abstraction layer) approximating a "pseudo bios" - a bit of code that, after a fashion, acts (sort of) like a bios for ARM. Generally, those things set up at execution point zero, take the first xxk for themselves, do their HAL thing and then pitch off to the kernel, which calls them back to say hello once in a while. A bit more standardization at the hardware level will allow the various "HALs" to play better. Standardization on ARM could be a real stunner for the incumbent x86 crowd ... Last edited by censored; 30th January 2014 at 03:42 PM. |
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