RISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in newer flavors of Linux
RISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in newer flavors of Linux
RISC-V gets a feature that may prove integral to future server and enterprise implementations
I don't see this having any application on home PCs, but probably pretty valuable on the commercial / business side.
Time to swap to RGB modules live!
But why?
Uptime
server and enterprise implementations
Reading the article does help
Data center. Not something you'd do at home.
Buddy works in a data center. He spent a few weeks doing ram swaps. Process is something along these lines: bring a server on a cart, boot it up, divert traffic from server in rack, shut down racked server, swap ram, boot up server, divert traffic back repeat for all the other servers in the rack.
This would drastically reduce the time required.
It keeps going on the other side of the desk…