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I had some representatives from ARM and NXP come and give a demo of some ARM boxes.

Now these were in the context of white box customer premises networking equipment, but what I found quite interesting was that these machines all supported UEFI.

There's certainly an effect to have some standardisation for ARM machines.

But who knows when it'll get to the desktop.

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Yea I think the model here (especially since the article seems to really be conflating "desktop" with "High end desktop" especially in terms of the Arm ecosystem ), will be that we do see these features developed from the server side first, and then given the "content creator" treatment. I don't think that this is bad as the article implies. Rocking the top of the HEDT market is good for magazine covers, but it isn't exactly where the profits are. Filling datacenters will fund the work that we're interested in -- namely the robust, expandable, systems that have the muscle and the mainstream features that make for a cushy desktop experience.

But also, Aren't we still complaining about linux on the desktop?

> and then given the "content creator" treatment

Content creation is done almost exclusively through proprietary software that's heavily optimized for a given platform, so this would be one of the worst markets to tackle first with an architecture change.

UEFI seems pretty prevalent with AArch64 in general -- pretty much all recent Qualcomm Android devices do UEFI boot.

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