[rtp4me]

Can someone please confirm, is the Graviton an ARM-based CPU or something different? The page mentioned ARM, but I was still a little confused. Are we able to launch a Debian/Fedora using the CPU, or is meant for something different?

[butvacuum]

Yes, the gravatons are the AWS arm architecture instances

[rtp4me]

Thanks, so "standard" ARM we can launch VMs with? I wasn't sure if this was some sort of proprietary ARM chip use for specialized work.

[butvacuum]

As far as I'm aware- if it's called an ARM CPU it's either the v7 or v8 instruction set with the possibility of extra instructions (changes to ARM die) or a tightly integrated coprocessor (via AXI bus, adjacent to the ARM silicon on the same substrate).

There are different Coretex series that optimize for different things- A and X for applications (phones, cloud compute, SBCs, desktops and laptops), M for microcontrollers, and R for realtime.

This doesn't apply if the company has an ARM founder and/or architecture license. (I think that's what they're called) Eg- Apple and their M series SOCs are not Coretex cores, but share the base instruction set- but only if Apple wants it to.

[quesomaster9000]

Yup, Amazon supports the 6.11? kernel on aarch64. Most toolchains if you target linux aarch64 static they, they will produce executables that will run on Amazon Linux aarch64 and Android, set-top boxes with 64-bit chips and Linux 3+ it's surprising how many devices a static aarch64 ELF will run on.

[rtp4me]

Awesome, thanks for this. Off to build new Ansible deployment scripts for aarch64!

[everfrustrated]

Yes, think AMD vs Intel. Same x86 target but built differently under the hood with potential to optimize for certain uses over others.

[crest]

It's based on ARM Neoverse V3 cores which are very similar to the latest high performance mobile Cortex X4 cores.