[Sirened]

One of the key points he makes is that this is now an entrenched problem. SoC designers looked to Linux and asked "hey, can you drive the power management stuff?" and got no real help and so instead just built it out of the purview of the AP clusters altogether. Hardware is essentially implementing an abstract interface that is convenient for Linux to use and hiding everything else that's too difficult to add.

The solution, and one that he specifically calls out, is that operating systems people need to work with hardware people to build better hardware and software together to build new computers. We got into this situation because everyone was just solving problems with the tools they readily had available to them. This is obviously easier said than done, but it does make now a very interesting time to work at one of those handful of large companies which produces their own custom SoCs and operating systems (I believe it's Apple, Google, and Microsoft) since you really have to take both operating systems and hardware forward simultaneously to solve the underlying issue.

[loudmax]

As I understand, this is the promise of Oxide Computer company. While they're not making their own SoCs, they are attempting to design the hardware and software together. Co-founder Bryan Cantrill has gone on rants about the number of extra layers of computers in your servers.