I would like the comparative simplicity, size, and ease of configuration in openwrt to make it up into more virtualized environments, also.
On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 11:01 AM Philip Prindeville <philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm thinking about the utility of being able to build a generalized ARM64 > image (not "armvirt") for bring up on new platforms for testing. > > There are a lot of generalized computing platforms like the Ampere Altra > servers that you might want to use as in inbound Apache proxy server, a load > balancer, a traffic shaper, etc. > > Can we add a generic target for ARM64 just as x86_64 (or x86/64) is the > generic AMD64 target? > > I'd like something that I could easily run on a Graviton2 or Altra or Ten64, > etc. > > Also not clear to me why the various ARM targets like "layerscape", "imx", > "octeontx", etc. don't live under a common directory. > > Yes, ARM is more optimized for SoCs that have I/O on-chip and hence there's > less mix-n-match compared to x86, but it's not completely unheard of either. > > What do you all think of adding a generic target for aarch64? > > And how awful would refactoring arm and aarch64 be? > > Thanks, > > -Philip > > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel -- Podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7058793910227111937/ Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
