Years ago Arm introduced ServerReady program to certificate servers. To show that they can be "boring": working out of the box.
Then renamed it to SystemReady to cover more hw types. Later ended certification and replaced it with "compliance".
After seeing Radxa Orion C6 on a list of compliant systems I have a proposal.
Rename it again. Make it SalesReady.
If your device boots some systems from a list you are compliant.
Who cares about drivers, working pcie cards?
Only users. Ignore them.
@KarelGardas Age.
Honeycomb has 16 Cortex-A72 cores (from 2014). No atomics, no SVE etc.
Ampere Altra is a bit newer with Neoverse-N1 (from 2016). Has atomics, RAS. No SVE.
My aging x86-64 desktop has cpu from 2019.
We have year 2025. I would like to use something current.
Current Arm cloud/server hardware has MTE, MPAM, SVE/SVE2 and many other features. Which you cannot get at home.
At least without spending thousands of EUR on NVidia Grace family hardware.
@KarelGardas remote machines still feel like cloud.
I can get access to some newer Arm systems in remote labs. But that's always time limited as there are other users who would like to use those systems too.
Orion C6 felt like "nice armv9 system for in-home development" and so far I see it as failed promise from a company which is not capable of sw/fw development for it.
@KarelGardas I use Macbook pro with M1 Pro cpu for quite a while.
During that time I used MacOS maybe for 2h in total.
With M4 Mac I will have to wait a bit for Linux support. Hope that libvirt will work.
And still it will be faster than other option.
Marcin Juszkiewicz 🙃
KarelGardas