Linux on Cavium CN23XX cards
a project by tsbogend
Updated almost 2 years ago. 2 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

Before Cavium switched to ARM64 CPUs they developed quite powerful MIPS based SOCs. The current upstream Linux kernel already supports some Octeon SOCs, but not the latest versions. Goal of this Hack Week project is to use the latest Cavium SDK to update the Linux kernel code to let it running on CN23XX network cards.

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  • almost 2 years ago: tsbogend added keyword "kernel" to this project.
  • almost 2 years ago: tsbogend added keyword "mips" to this project.
  • almost 2 years ago: tsbogend started this project.
  • about 2 years ago: tsbogend originated this project.


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