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Change subject: Documentation/releases: Deprecate Intel Quark SoC ......................................................................
Patch Set 1: Code-Review+2
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PS1: This is a single-core part which ran at 400 mhz. The last new one was released 7 years ago as a 32mhz part. This chip was EOL 3 years ago with final shipments july 2022. It was never very good anyway: "Intel Quark SoC X1000 contains a bug #71538[15] that "under specific circumstances" results in a type of crash known as a segfault. The workaround implemented by Intel is to omit LOCK prefixes (not required on single-threaded processors) in the compiled code."
You have to wonder how much anyone cared if they did not get LOCK right; LOCK was an original i8086 instruction.
In all my discussions with Intel about this chip, I never came away with a feeling they had much enthusiasm for it. As was pointed out elsewhere, "Originally meant to power emerging mass market devices, Intel’s Quark SoCs and microcontrollers have barely become popular among makers of actual products. Therefore, it is not surprising that Intel discontinues the lineup without introducing any direct replacements."
You can buy a MUCH better board -- more cores, more HZ, more memory -- with a multicore riscv or arm for $10.
Note, too, this is git: nothing is ever really removed. I recently went back to LinuxBIOS v1 to find some old code of mine.