I'd like to register my interest as well. I think an open hardware platform will do a lot to move the industry forward.
On Mon, Sep 2, 2019, 10:09 PM Brandon Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/2/19 6:04 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: > >> Like how about 8-16*100GE single Trio PCI card with no-questions > >> asked, specification released, would there be a market? I like to > >> think there would be. > > I'd be down for this. > > > > Mark. > > Oh my gosh this. Especially if the docs are truly public (i.e. > available with single click-wrap "don't be an asshat" license or even > something like GDFL) and not just under NDA, but honestly even if it's > an NDA required as long as it's broadly available for issuance (no need > to be a high-volume) Broadcom partner and allows the results of its use > to be distributed as F/OSS software, I'm game. > > I kinda wonder if the culture at Broadcom has changed any since the > merger/acquisition with Avagao. Obviously in ye olde days, you wouldn't > even get the time of day from them unless you were wanting to commit to > a million or so in sales. > > I spread my interest (and professional practice) between SP networking, > industrial networking, industrial controls, and industrial computing > including hardware, so this is drool-level interest for me even if I > don't get to work on it directly. So much so that I've been wanting to > play with an FPGA platform for this sort of thing, but there's just no > compelling reason given that existing, openly-documented accelerated > NICs from e.g. Intel on high-end PC hardware can basically match the > performance of any reasonable-cost FPGA Ethernet switching system in > useful workloads. > -- > Brandon Martin >
