Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 01:08:55 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r49556 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201610240108.u9O18toE054486@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Mon Oct 24 01:08:55 2016 New Revision: 49556 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49556 Log: Add entry on the Alpine SoC from Michal Stanek Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Sun Oct 23 23:44:39 2016 (r49555) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Mon Oct 24 01:08:55 2016 (r49556) @@ -861,4 +861,77 @@ review.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='arch'> + <title>&os; on Annapurna Labs Alpine</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Jan</given> + <common>Medala</common> + </name> + <email>jan@semihalf.com</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Michal</given> + <common>Stanek</common> + </name> + <email>mst@semihalf.com</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Wojciech</given> + <common>Macek</common> + </name> + <email>wma@semihalf.com</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <body> + <p>Alpine is a family of Platform-on-Chip devices, including + multi-core 32-bit (first-gen Alpine) and 64-bit (Alpine V2) ARM + CPUs, developed by Annapurna Labs.</p> + + <p>The primary focus areas of the Alpine platform are + high-performance networking, storage and embedded applications. The + network subsystem features 10-, 25-, and 50-Gbit Ethernet + controllers with support for virtualization, load-balancing, + hardware offload and other advanced features.</p> + + <p>A basic patch set has already been committed to HEAD including:</p> + + <ul> + <li>PCIe Root Complex support</li> + + <li>Cache Coherency Unit driver</li> + + <li>North Bridge Service driver</li> + + <li>Updated Alpine HAL</li> + + <li>Extended MSI support in GICv2 and GICv3 code</li> + </ul> + + <p>Additional work, such as an MSI-X driver and full Ethernet + support, is currently undergoing community review on Phabricator.</p> + + <p>The multi-user SMP system is stable and fully working, along with + the 1G and 10G Ethernet links.</p> + + <p>The interrupt management code has been adjusted to work with the + new INTRNG framework on both ARM32 and ARM64.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + Annapurna Labs — an Amazon company + </sponsor> + + <sponsor> + Semihalf + </sponsor> + </project> </report>
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