IcepeakITX Elbrus-8CB: Mini-ITX Motherboard with MCST Elbrus8CB VLIW as CPU

Posted by wut42 on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:51AM
from the crowdsupply.com dept.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sra-centr8/icepeakitx-elbrus-8cb

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Re:IcepeakITX Elbrus-8CB: Mini-ITX Motherboard with MCST Elb... by marty1885 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:21AM (#25289648)

I've wanted to play with large VLIW processors (Itanium is a disaster what we don't talk about. And there's litte support anyway). It's almost my dream. I hope this is real!

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Re:IcepeakITX Elbrus-8CB: Mini-ITX Motherboard with MCST Elb... by aww_dang on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:59AM (#25160005)

Interesting board. Hadn't heard of Elbrus VLIW ISA.

>Elbrus is a mini-ITX security-oriented motherboard... MCST’s proprietary C/C++ compiler and bootloader will be provided only as binary, because we do not have access to the source code of this part.

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Re:IcepeakITX Elbrus-8CB: Mini-ITX Motherboard with MCST Elb... by sitzkrieg on Friday November 20, 2020 @02:52PM (#25164205)

opened to post this. total joke showstopper to consider open until an actual open source toolchain is ported to this weird architecture

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Re:IcepeakITX Elbrus-8CB: Mini-ITX Motherboard with MCST Elb... by mhh__ on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:08AM (#25161113)

VLIW is just cool, regardless of whether or not it'll ever be truly worth it.

The geographic origins of the hardware (Russia) may clash with the compiler and firmware being binary-only

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Re:IcepeakITX Elbrus-8CB: Mini-ITX Motherboard with MCST Elb... by rurban on Saturday November 21, 2020 @12:45AM (#25168062)

Cool, a motherboard with Non-US backdoors, but Russian ones. Certainly usable for security purposes. The third option is to use Chinese backdoors, some of them even with two in one (Chinese plus US). This has at least only one.

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