> When will arm cpus be as fast as x86 notebooks and when will such arm cpus
be libre software capable?
EOMA68 isn't supposed to use the same amount of power as x86; high-power
applications are supposed to be dealt with by a separate EOMA standard which
allows for more energy usage and heat, because these are the actual limiting
factors, not what architecture is being used.
But if rather than comparing to the most recent high-end x86 CPUs, you
compare to older but still usable or lower-end x86 CPUs, then yeah, tons of
ARM CPUs exist that are as fast or even faster. You do remember that many
Chromebooks use ARM CPUs, right? At least one of them which is fairly recent
can even run a 100% libre software stack, and incidentally, the SoC used in
that Chromebook is the one lkcl is looking at for the next EOMA68 card.
