It 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).
Comments
I 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.
What board is that?
A78 is a couple generations newer.
Nvidia Bluefield3
The BF3 is a DPU, not an SBC right? Or can it be operated without a host? I'm curious about your setup.
It 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).
Wow, 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.
The downside is its so expensive it might as well be made out of solid gold...
Yeah, you lost me at "nvidia" lol.