With the caveat that ARM isn't a industry standard like PC has become, thus whil...

antonkochubey · 2025-10-31T10:46:55 1761907615

There are the Arm SystemReady and ServerReady requirements/specifications that enable generic board support by the OSes.

pjmlp · 2025-10-31T10:56:05 1761908165

Thanks, I thought we were still on device trees and little else.

jakogut · 2025-10-31T13:31:59 1761917519

Practically speaking, very few systems actually support SystemReady. There's an experimental port of edk2 for the Raspberry Pi, but some hardware is unavailable when using it.

jabl · 2025-10-31T15:02:46 1761922966

The ARM server platforms seem quite decent here? But yeah, pick any small dev board and I suspect it looks quite different.

pezezin · 2025-11-01T10:29:59 1761992999

It's weird that the book is titled "PC98", because PC-98 usually refers to NEC's line of x86 but not IBM PC compatible computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-98

Which I think reinforces your argument: there were non-standard x86 platforms, but thankfully they died out. Given the situation of the home computer industry during the 8 and 16-bit eras, it is a small miracle that we ended up having an open industry standard.