Ampere EMAG 64bit Arm Workstation

Re:Ampere EMAG 64bit Arm Workstation by nottorp on Sunday March 31, 2019 @07:38AM (#19535068)

That link whined at me for denying targeted advertising instead of showing me the article so I guess I wont ever know what its about...

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Re:Ampere EMAG 64bit Arm Workstation by linux4kix on Sunday March 31, 2019 @07:42AM (#19535089)

https://www.solid-run.com/nxp-lx2160a-family/clearfog-itx/

better :) we just announced it.

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Re:Ampere EMAG 64bit Arm Workstation by floatboth on Sunday March 31, 2019 @09:10AM (#19535383)

Hi, I posted a comment on cnx-software but it's awaiting moderation, reposting here:

> work with Linaro on the work they did for the MCBin to get a UEFI plugin that uses a QEMU emulation layer for supporting booting Video Card BIOS

Linaro? I thought the EDK2 for the MCbin was maintained by Semihalf :)

Anyway, 16 cores and dual-channel RAM for $500 is a lot more interesting than 4 cores and single-channel for $269. A few questions:

Will the EDK2 tree be fully open source? There was that one blob on the MCbin…

Will the core be overclockable?

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Re:Ampere EMAG 64bit Arm Workstation by linux4kix on Sunday March 31, 2019 @10:34AM (#19535777)

Semihalf is maintaining the tree and patches, but I believe the original work done to support using a GPU on the platform was done by Linaro. I could be mis-remembering but I believe that is how things happened.

We are waiting for the final release of the EDK2 tree from NXP. I will refrain from promising anything until that is integrated.

The cores are not overclockable. 2.2Ghz will be the limit.

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Re:Ampere EMAG 64bit Arm Workstation by nottorp on Sunday March 31, 2019 @09:43AM (#19535543)

Ah, pretty. Hoping the 4x10 Gbe is optional, since I bet it costs as much as the rest of the board ;)

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Re:Ampere EMAG 64bit Arm Workstation by floatboth on Sunday March 31, 2019 @09:58AM (#19535598)

> The 10-100G ports are no extra cost. It is available on the SOC and brought out on the COM Express pins so we wanted it available for those that could use it. Additionally these are raw SERDES lanes so in theory could be attached to a PCIe expansion cage.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/03/29/clearfog-itx-worksta...

Looks like anyone who makes these 16-core A72 chips is making them for networking (this NXP one, Mellanox Bluefield is a somewhat similar idea I think). So you can't not pay the cost of the NIC that's on the chip already…

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