| 7 Sep 2025 |
 hexa | I know qualcomm does this often | 01:08:29 |
 emily | I thought most managed switches were not OpenWrt | 01:08:31 |
| emily | or at least not anything remotely close to normal OpenWrt | 01:08:41 |
 raitobezarius | QNAP is not serious managed switch | 01:08:50 |
| raitobezarius | non serious managed switch is OpenWRT | 01:08:58 |
| hexa | serious managed switches cut down the resources much further 😄 | 01:09:11 |
| hexa | and you get a stupid mips core | 01:09:19 |
| hexa | * and you get a stupid mips core instead | 01:09:37 |
| emily | grr, since when does amazon.com redirect to the local site | 01:09:53 |
| emily | what's the price of this thing? | 01:09:55 |
| raitobezarius | 600+ bucks | 01:09:59 |
| hexa | 700 EURish | 01:10:00 |
| raitobezarius | stupidly expensive and useless | 01:10:03 |
| emily | rip | 01:10:08 |
| raitobezarius | i considered buying it | 01:10:10 |
| emily | if I was spending that much I could probably get something a lot beefier second-hand | 01:10:20 |
| hexa | but also likely more power hungry | 01:10:34 |
| raitobezarius | probably not as a silent | 01:10:35 |
| raitobezarius | * probably not as silent | 01:10:42 |
| raitobezarius | neither switchdev support | 01:10:49 |
| hexa | yeah, prestera is an interesting platform | 01:11:13 |
| raitobezarius | i think if they did a half version of that switch and sold it for 250-300 bucks | 01:14:20 |
| raitobezarius | i'd buy it and port liminix to it | 01:14:23 |
| emily | are the ARM cores 64 bit | 01:17:55 |
| hexa |
High-performance Control and Management Subsystem with integrated Arm Cortex CPU cores and advanced management interfaces
| 01:18:57 |
| raitobezarius | probably yes | 01:19:14 |
| hexa | I would hope so | 01:19:16 |
| hexa |
Add support for the Allecat5/Alleycat5X SoC. These are L3 switches with
an integrated CPU (referred to as the CnM block in Marvell's
documentation). These have dual ARMv8.2 CPUs (Cortex-A55). This support
has been ported from Marvell's SDK which is based on a much older
version of U-Boot.
| 01:19:38 |
| raitobezarius | i don't think there's much 32 bits ARM in new projects | 01:19:39 |
| hexa | so low power cores | 01:19:54 |
