Server Base System Architecture: Difference between revisions

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The '''Server Base System Architecture''' ('''SBSA''') is a hardware system architecture for [[server (computing)|server]]s based on 64-bit [[ARM architecture|ARM]] processors.<ref>{{cite news |author=Peter Bright |date={{date|2014-01-30}} |title=ARM finally defines a platform as it sets its sights on the server room |publisher=[[Ars Technica]] |url=httphttps://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/arm-finally-defines-a-platform-as-it-sets-its-sights-on-the-server-room/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Johan De Gelas |date={{date|2014-01-29}} |title=ARM and Partners Deliver First ARM Server Platform Standard |publisher=[[AnandTech]] |url=http://www.anandtech.com/show/7721/arm-and-partners-deliver-first-arm-server-platform-standard }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |title=ARM Ecosystem Collaborates to Deliver Initial Server Platform Standard |date={{date|2014-01-29}} |publisher=[[ARM Holdings]] |url=http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-ecosystem-collaborates-to-deliver-initial-server-platform-standard.php }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Jonathan Corbet |date={{date|2014-02-05}} |title=ARM, SBSA, UEFI, and ACPI |publisher=[[LWN.net]] |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/584123/ }}</ref>

It attempts to standardize PE features and key aspects of system architecture. It specified features which firmware, OS and hypervisors can rely on, to enable a suitably-built single OS image to run on all hardware compliant with this specification.