On 4 December 2017 at 13:11, Michael Richardson <m...@sandelman.ca> wrote: > > Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: . > > > On the really high end the 48 core arm boxes from cavium look > interesting. > > I'm told that there is some special sauce to get them to go at the speeds the > specs say. Basically you run Linux on one core, and a special (binary blob) > micro kernel on the other 47, and manage them via FORCES. >
Can confrim; we included a Cavium GPC in our Original VSG7850 as a Linux Environment along side the Trident2+ chipset. It was a nightmare just getting the NDK signed to get access to the Cavium build chain, and then it was using an ancient 2.6 kernel with Secret sauce patches. _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
