linux4kix

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by linux4kix 5y ago
The qsfp28 port can be configured as 4x10Gbps or 1x40Gbps, or 4x25Gbps, 2x50Gbps, or 1x100Gbps. They are different signalling standards.
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by linux4kix 5y ago
The LX2160a has a 50Gbps crypto accelerator and a 100Gbps compression/decompression accelerator built into the network packet processor to help offload some of the processing. The 16-cores are useful for the high speed packet processi
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by linux4kix 5y ago
There is no backplane for the CPUs no. But they support 10 and 25Gbps networking that can be used for high speed clustering.
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by linux4kix 5y ago
The core count and network processing is the same, but the number of SERDES lanes is half. This allowed the SOC's die size to be much smaller. You can fit 4 SOMs in the space of a single CEX7 module.
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by linux4kix 5y ago
We are talking with MNT about possibly building around the LX2162a SOM.
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by linux4kix 5y ago
We have a growing lineup of SystemReady ES certified hardware that will make good OSS upgrades. New platforms on our LX2162A based SOM will be especially good for this application.
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by linux4kix 5y ago
I very much doubt it. Apple's M1 SOC is not a standards base design and the OS is very specialized to their hardware. As far as I know they don't even support external PCIe GPUs on the platform.
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by linux4kix 5y ago
We don't make the SOCs, just implement them. The only other available SOC that is N1 is the Ampere Altra and you will not be able to provide a < $1000 system with that. Also the SOC itself is almost as large as the entire CEX7 mod
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by linux4kix 5y ago
It is an mITX motherboard, you can use any off the shelf case. The community has done all sorts of interesting builds.
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by linux4kix 5y ago
The LX2160a can handle up to 130Gbps of network traffic. That is what it is designed for. You also have the benefit that the Quad SFP+ ports can be configured as a network switch completely offloaded from the CPU. That is what this SOC w
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by linux4kix 5y ago
Typing this right now a HoneyComb running Fedora 34. RX560 gpu, nvme, 32GB of DDR4 3000 XMP memory. Are there rough edges with Aarch64 on the desktop, sure but without platforms like HC this will never change. There are lots of core OSS d
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by linux4kix 5y ago
You may be interested in our new platforms coming out based on our newly announced LX2162A, https://www.solid-run.com/embedded-networking/nxp-lx2160a-fa...
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by linux4kix 5y ago
socketed Arm SOCs are very unlikely because there are so many vendors making them. This works on the x86_64 side because you basically have Intel and AMD and they each have their own manufacturing ecosystem and target sockets. That is why
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by linux4kix 5y ago
No it is not setting records, but we felt that it was capable enough to help crack the existing chicken and egg problem. We could provide a SystemReady Arm platform that could help bridge the divide and provide developers a native Aarch64 p
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by linux4kix 5y ago
Currently any GPU that supports an in kernel OSS driver will work, so mainly using the amdgpu or nouveau driver. We are working nvidia on some issues regarding using their binary Aarch64 Linux drivers. That is kind of the point of HC, if
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by linux4kix 6y ago
Remember the HoneyComb is a 30 Watt machine.
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by linux4kix 6y ago
The HoneyComb boards are fitted with a uBMC. This is a stateless MC that can be connected to a BMC concentrator gateway.
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by linux4kix 6y ago
Don't forget about our Marvell series of boards :) While HoneyComb is our flagship for SystemsReady ES certification, We will also have our Armada 8040 and CN913x based products that will also be fully supported UEFI + ACPI systems.
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by linux4kix 7y ago
Porting is not necessarily the issue. As Linus pointed out earlier in the year, platforms that aren't native to the developer generally have issues that fall through the cracks. I recommend you look up the series of posts that CloudF
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by linux4kix 7y ago
Absolutely. The HoneyComb is targeted as a developer workstation / desktop. The ClearFog CX LX2K is the higher end board aimed at networking and edge compute applications. We are collaborating with most the major distributions makin
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by linux4kix 7y ago
Whatever developers want to use it for. It has storage, highspeed networking, 16-cores all in a 32W TDP. We are excited to see what uses the community and our customers come up with for it.
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by linux4kix 7y ago
The COM Express 7 module, has SPI-NOR for booting, a second SPI for UEFI secure variable storage, and eMMC for an embedded or recovery OS. Other than that you can boot your distro from eMMC, USB, Sata, or NVME.
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by linux4kix 7y ago
Coreboot isn't immediately on our radar. We have both u-boot and EDK2 running, although EDK2 needs more work. Mainline support for the SOC is already making it into mainline and we can boot a mainline kernel with limited functionality
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by linux4kix 7y ago
The PCIe slot is actually 8x. Right now we are targeting AMD Polaris based GPUs for support, just because their power consumption fits well with this SOC. AMD just announced their PRO 3200, which is really a match made in heaven. I just
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by linux4kix 7y ago
SolidRun CSA here. The SOC by itself will run with a fully OSS firmware, either u-boot or edk2. We are working on SBSA compliance and hope to have that ready for the production run of SOCs. While the entire device can be run with fully O
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by linux4kix 7y ago
let me know if you want this data in github. Just testing our overclocking bring cpu clock up to 2.4Ghz and DDR to 3200 Also building with gcc 8.2 not I needed to change -march=native to -march=armv8-a+crypto Min: 0.00111424 bytes read: 6
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by linux4kix 7y ago
Semihalf is maintaining the tree and patches, but I believe the original work done to support using a GPU on the platform was done by Linaro. I could be mis-remembering but I believe that is how things happened. We are waiting for the fina
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by linux4kix 7y ago
Sure I will keep an eye on your updates and keep testing. I would also like to point out that the LX2160 is also a TDP of 32Watts compared to the 125W TDP of the eMag.
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by linux4kix 7y ago
Okay I couldn't help myself, waiting for a build to finish. ./parse jsonexamples/twitter.json Min: 0.00171284 bytes read: 631514 Gigabytes/second: 0.368695
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by linux4kix 7y ago
Just tested the Daniel's tests against our 16 Core LX2160 that is still only clocked at 1.9Ghz (will be 2.2Ghz final production). These are our numbers binarytrees: 37s mandelbrot: 13.6s fasta: 0.9s I will give your benchmark a run on

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