<davidlt[m]>
It comes with Renesas RZ/Five SoC, which incl. Andes X45MP.
<davidlt[m]>
Andes has upstream support and there has been a lot of upstream activity around Renesas RZ/Five SoC.
<davidlt[m]>
Don't get me wrong, this is a single core @ 1.0GHz. Nothing impressive and terrible slow, but that's probably the 1st easy to access (+ upstream support [not sure exactly status]) for Andes core IP.
<davidlt[m]>
In worst case scenario at least some newer core IP for CI testing.
<cwt[m]>
dual gigabit?
<davidlt[m]>
Yup
<cwt[m]>
that could be one hell of a firewall, well if the price is cheap
<davidlt[m]>
Ah also Sophgo sg2040 is called "mango".
<davidlt[m]>
Well I am not sure single-core @ 1.0Ghz might be capable of a lot of stuff without some accel.
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<davidlt[m]>
Sophgo has github account and a bunch of repos with various things (seems the source code is open).
<davidlt[m]>
64-cores, 16 clusters, 4 cores per cluster. 4 channels per SoC.
<davidlt[m]>
Max 2S configuration for 128-core system.
<davidlt[m]>
ZSBL code is also available.
<davidlt[m]>
So far it looks like a large scale embedded SBC.
<davidlt[m]>
(but the initial arm64 server was a "large SBC" too).
<davidlt[m]>
Stil e-waste, but not a problem for Alibaba [Cloud], I guess.
<cwt[m]>
sg2040 is a 120W processor
<davidlt[m]>
I wonder if Alibaba is like Huawei and the plan is to iterate extremely fast.
<davidlt[m]>
Yeah, so probably 200-500W for the 2S server platform.
<davidlt[m]>
Also source code confirmed that it's C920.
<davidlt[m]>
Not C910 like in TH1520.
<davidlt[m]>
The biggest worry for me is trade war.
<davidlt[m]>
China blocked Loongson exports, 4 months after US added relevant companies to entity list too.
<davidlt[m]>
There is a big push to get Loongson supported upstream.
<davidlt[m]>
Naturally SG2040 is significantly more powerful compared to Loongson announced SoCs.
<davidlt[m]>
Thus I wonder will we manage to get it (i.e. buy) before trade wars blocks access to it (if at all).
<davidlt[m]>
If you one want you probably should buy one ASAP.
<davidlt[m]>
It's impossible to predict what will happen.
<davidlt[m]>
Depending on the price this probably will be the best value product.
<davidlt[m]>
A number of folks (in China) got EVB, and the Dev Kit is "Mango Pioneer" platform which will be on sale at some ponit.
<davidlt[m]>
s/ponit/point/
<davidlt[m]>
They have some strange hacks to get AMD GPU working, which is surprising. HD6000-series and AMD RX400 and RX500 series basically work on of the box for years.
<davidlt[m]>
JH7110 upstreaming continues, but nothing new landed yet.
<davidlt[m]>
More driver have been posted for a review thought.
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