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People have been wanting ARM servers since the first ones were announced. But there are two big problems. First, there is no unified boot- and device initialisation-standard. So you cannot just put in a bootable USB stick and expect it to work. Second, you can not reliably order any hardware, just very small series just above prototype stages...



> First, there is no unified boot- and device initialisation-standard.

There is. UEFI + ACPI.

> So you cannot just put in a bootable USB stick and expect it to work.

That's how it works today for Arm servers. Windows on Arm platforms also use UEFI + ACPI, and ship with the bootloader unlocked.




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