Pensando Sends Out Latest Linux Patches For Bringing Up Their Elba DPU SoC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Pensando Sends Out Latest Linux Patches For Bringing Up Their Elba DPU SoC

Earlier this week was the news of AMD acquiring Pensando in a $1.9B deal expected to close in Q2. The acquisition announcement isn't slowing down their efforts with today bringing the latest version of their Linux kernel patches for bringing up the Elba SoC...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Pensando-Elba-Linux-Patches

[cb88]

I guess this is similar to Nvidia's purchase of Mellanox... and this will be AMD's go to network gear in datacenters.

[brad0]

I guess this is similar to Nvidia's purchase of Mellanox... and this will be AMD's go to network gear in datacenters.

AMD already picked up your common use Ethernet adapters a la Mellanox (ConnectX adapters) via Xilinx with Solarflare. That'll be the go to for most common usage. But Pensando appears to have an option to provide a DPU based product similar to Mellanox's BlueField adapters.

[Old Grouch]

So it'll be able to run OpenWrt. <grin> It'll be nice to get some capable ARM SoCs.

(Yes, this posting is tongue in cheek, and I'm not seriously proposing that OpenWrt would be the first choice for running on data centre equipment, but once you go mainline, all sorts of interesting/zany possibilities present themselves.)

[cb88]

AMD already picked up your common use Ethernet adapters a la Mellanox (ConnectX adapters) via Xilinx with Solarflare. That'll be the go to for most common usage. But Pensando appears to have an option to provide a DPU based product similar to Mellanox's BlueField adapters.

True AMD also has their in house 10GBE at the low end but almost no chips enable that for whatever reason. I suspect that is actually there other purposes part of manufacturing.... otherwise why would they waste that much silicon on a 10GBe adapter and never use it.

[cb88]

So it'll be able to run OpenWrt. <grin> It'll be nice to get some capable ARM SoCs.

(Yes, this posting is tongue in cheek, and I'm not seriously proposing that OpenWrt would be the first choice for running on data centre equipment, but once you go mainline, all sorts of interesting/zany possibilities present themselves.)

Any serious company is working ahead of mainline... so yeah. Also this is likely some form of high performance software defined routing that doesn't really rely on Linux itself all that much other than for hardware drivers.