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Re:Pre-Prod HoneyComb LX2K 16-Core Mini ITX Arm Workstation ... by monocasa on Saturday July 06, 2019 @06:56PM (#20372531)
Yeah, it has several coprocessors and operating modes below the operating system. But I don't see any docs on the openness of their firmware. And FWIW, any chip this complicated borderlibe requires a management Co processors as the main cores are way too power hungry for a lot of tasks, and need a lot of babysitting to initialize fully. The Cell processor in the PS3 is architecturally a SPI slave for instance.
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Re:Pre-Prod HoneyComb LX2K 16-Core Mini ITX Arm Workstation ... by als0 on Sunday July 07, 2019 @05:18AM (#20374264)
> The Cell processor in the PS3 is architecturally a SPI slave for instance.

That's very interesting. Why did they build it like that? Do you have more information on this?

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Re:Pre-Prod HoneyComb LX2K 16-Core Mini ITX Arm Workstation ... by monocasa on Sunday July 07, 2019 @02:42PM (#20376894)
Yeah, the term to search for is "configuration ring". It's the big shift register of most of the stuff you need to baby sit in order to bring up the Cell.
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