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Bought myself an Ampere Altra system

(marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl)
204 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 30 Jun 25 04:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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amelius ◴[30 Jun 25 09:25 UTC] No.44421186[source]▶
> And the latest one, an Apple MacBook Pro, is nice and fast but has some limits — does not support 64k page size. Which I need for my work.

I wonder where this requirement comes from ...

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dist1ll ◴[30 Jun 25 10:36 UTC] No.44421603[source]▶
OP works for Red Hat, and some of the tests require booting systems with 64k pages.

What surprises me more is why Red Hat doesn't provide them with the proper hardware..

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1. rwmj ◴[30 Jun 25 10:53 UTC] No.44421698[source]▶
Red Hat has dozens of internal aarch64 machines (similar to the one in the article) that can be reserved, but sometimes you just want a machine of your own to play with.