Talk:MIPS64: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:16, 9 November 2024

Please keep

Hi,

please, please, please don't delete the page or the archived binaries etc.

There's 10000's of SmartNICs based on this CPU that are being obsoleted at various cloud providers. They're very cheap to obtain, I've seen them as low as $6 for a 25G model with 16Cores/16GB Ram, and even the more expensive offers are a good value.

Good models

CN6640 (Dual/Quad 10G, 12 Core?, 8/16GB via DDR3 SODIMM)
CN2300/CN7322 (Dualport 10G / Dualport 25G, 12 / 16 Core, 16GB)
CN7890 (Dualport 40G, 24/32 Core, 32GB)

Some even have 2x SATA 3.0 :-)

architecture revival feasible

Once enough of them have leaked out, it will be very feasible for the community to contribute and revive the port. At extremely slow pace, the vendor has upstreamed most parts for both Linux and U-Boot and as such, the situtation is less horrible than a few years ago. The gaps are getting smaller and easier to step over. As such it is a really nice tinkering platform, and in some sense it's even more open, or at least more open to be investigated than the easier to obtain alternatives like Ubiquiti routers.

The only holdup is the sparse documentation and if we just have a clear warning then it should be hopefully OK to keep all the traces of this architecture support around?

Other uses

To be clear, the cards work in Alpine as normal 25G NICs, but it would be a lot more fun to also run Alpine ON them.

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-Once enough of them have leaked out, it will be very feasible for the community to contribute and revive the port. As such it is a really nice tinkering platform, and in some sense it's even more open, or at least more open to be investigated than the easier to obtain alternatives like Ubiquiti routers.
+Once enough of them have leaked out, it will be very feasible for the community to contribute and revive the port. At extremely slow pace, the vendor has upstreamed most parts for both Linux and U-Boot and as such, the situtation is less horrible than a few years ago. The gaps are getting smaller and easier to step over. As such it is a really nice tinkering platform, and in some sense it's even more open, or at least more open to be investigated than the easier to obtain alternatives like Ubiquiti routers.
 The only holdup is the sparse documentation and if we just have a clear warning then it should be hopefully OK to keep all the traces of this architecture support around?