alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 4 months agoRISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in newer flavors of Linuxwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1178arrow-down12cross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.world
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minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up12·4 months agoYes. Server boot times are long. Enterprise level NICs and hard drive controllers do a lot of checking at startup. Historically, there were Sun servers that could hot swap CPUs. X86 can’t do that, though.
minus-squarepsvrh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoMany that weren’t based on x86 microcompters could do this: Tandem, I mean, Compaq, I mean HP NonStop machines, Sun Ultra Enterprise as you mentioned, IBM s390 and System-Z, several HPUX systems, I’m sure there’s others.
Yes. Server boot times are long. Enterprise level NICs and hard drive controllers do a lot of checking at startup.
Historically, there were Sun servers that could hot swap CPUs. X86 can’t do that, though.
Many that weren’t based on x86 microcompters could do this: Tandem, I mean, Compaq, I mean HP NonStop machines, Sun Ultra Enterprise as you mentioned, IBM s390 and System-Z, several HPUX systems, I’m sure there’s others.