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