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Too bad it doesn't have PCIe slots. It could be interesting as a low-end 10Gb/e storage/web server if it had enough I/O.
by drewg123 3y ago
Too bad it doesn't have PCIe slots. It could be interesting as a low-end 10Gb/e storage/web server if it had enough I/O.
- alexchamberlain 3y ago2x 2.5Gb/s interfaces are pretty chunky on this spec of board, isn't it?
- drewg123 3y agoI have a board with a 16 core A78 serving static content via 100Gb/s (encrypted via ktls, offloaded to the NIC). My arm fu is not good, so I'm not sure how a quad-core A76 compares.
- NewJazz 3y agoWhat board is that? A78 is a couple generations newer.
- drewg123 3y agoNvidia Bluefield3
- dist1ll 3y agoThe BF3 is a DPU, not an SBC right? Or can it be operated without a host? I'm curious about your setup.
- drewg123 3y agoIt can be operated w/o a host. It offers the ability to connect 16 lanes (or is it 32?) of PCIe Gen5. It has a 1 GbE management port, a BMC running OpenBMC, and a 400GbE NIC that does crypto offload. The debug environment is FANTASTIC.. you can remote attach a gdb, set breaks, and step through bootup. It made it super easy to get our OS going on it (especially when I couldn't talk to the serial-on-lan port for a stupid reason, and could not get into the box.. I could at least use the debugger to verify we were booting).
- dist1ll 3y agoWow, I had no idea! OpenBMC support even? That sounds like a decent platform to hack on... I got curious about the BF3 because of the 256-thread RISC-V data path.
- NewJazz 3y agoThe M.2 is PCIe. 4 lanes of Gen 3. You can get an adapter if you want the traditional form factor. But then you give up the storage :/
- sthlmb 3y agoThe M.2 NVMe only has 2 lanes of Gen 3 on this board, the other 2 are given to the SATA controller