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  • PeterH
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    April 26, 2014 at 8:12 pm
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    #1023 |

    How practical would it be to make mill processors socket compatible with an established line of CPUs? It would need a new BIOS, but could make it a lot easier to get respectable hardware running with the new architecture.

  • Ivan Godard
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    April 26, 2014 at 9:49 pm
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    #1024

    That’s actually the plan, for at least initial chips, although we are far from picking a socket yet – there will be new ones by the time we have something to put in one.

  • Russell Johnston
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    April 28, 2014 at 7:53 am
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    #1027

    Speaking of BIOS, have you thought about what kind(s) of firmware the Mill would work with? Mainstream UEFI? Coreboot? Something else?

  • Ivan Godard
    Keymaster
    April 28, 2014 at 8:26 am
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    #1028

    That’s quite a ways away. There are license issues, socket issues, target market issues, … For later 🙂

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