ARM is a dead end

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:42:45AM +0200, tim.lauridsen at gmail.com wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been pointed to a news item about a (apparently the first) x86 (Atom)
> > based smartphone:
> > http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/14/orange-san-diego-review/
> >
> > So even smartphones are going x86 now. It looks like x86 is going to defeat
> > ARM just like it defeated all the previous attempts at changing the
> > instruction set, even Intel's own IA-64. The fastest x86 CPUs are still
> > worlds faster than the fastest ARM CPUs. This new smartphone's single-core
> > Atom is competitive in speed with other smartphones' multi-core ARMs.
> >
> > So I would urge Fedora not to waste our time on a low-end architecture
> > filling a temporary niche which will become obsolete as demand for
> > performance increases. We should rather support only one primary
> > architecture (x86, i.e.: x86_64, and legacy i686 as long as there's a need
> > for it) and support it well, as we have done since we finally got rid of
> > the
> > legacy PPC burden. Niche architectures are exactly what secondary
> > architectures are for.
> >
> >        Kevin Kofler
> >
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> 
> 
> <troll mode>
> Why do we waste time on Linux, when we all just can use Windows, the
> desktop market leader ????
> </troll mode>
> 
> Linux is about choices and is driven by people by by people with passions
> for something, even if not what every body else think is importent.
> So telling people to don't waste time on something they care about, Is
> wrong in so many ways.

Damn right!  I'm running Linux (not Fedora, sadly) on my OpenRISC FPGA.

Rich.

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