On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:46 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Oct 2016, Dave Taht wrote: > >> >> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/874883570/marvell-espressobin-board?token=6a67e544 > > > Oh, oh, another device with a "packet processor". > > http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/assets/Marvell-88F37xx-Product-Brief-20160830.pdf > > Do we know anything about this packet processor and FOSS support for it? I > guess the "buffer manager" is very much of interest to anti-bufferbloat...
Well, it's a competitor to the edgerouter X pricewise, and my hope would be with the cache coherent I/O and the arm v8s that it could push 1Gbit with ease out each port, regardless of offloads. USB3 makes for high speed nas capability, (although I have high hopes for usb-c on something router-ish someday). Also I am gradually thinking we'll start seeing more 2.5gbit ethernet over TP. And there's a mini-pcie slot for wifi-card-of-choice... all at a pricepoint that's lower than almost anything I've seen with these capabilities. Who knows, perhaps the "full SDK" will allow for programming the packet coprocessor? /me drinks some kool-aid Downsides: Globalscale, historically, has had heat issues in their designs. And it is quite far from shipping, as yet. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] -- Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! http://blog.cerowrt.org _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
