Ask HN: PCIe cards with their own NIC/Storage/OS? I'm looking for a PCIe card that runs its own linux os and can talk with the host system. Ideally, it would have its own NIC and NVME interface for storage. Does anything like this exist? |
Ask HN: PCIe cards with their own NIC/Storage/OS? I'm looking for a PCIe card that runs its own linux os and can talk with the host system. Ideally, it would have its own NIC and NVME interface for storage. Does anything like this exist? |
https://www.servethehome.com/zfs-without-a-server-using-the-...
Basically some dual- to quad-core arm embedded into the fpga, various amounts of memory, sometimes expandable via SODIMM, and so on.
NOT cheap!
https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/embedded-softwa... would be cybertrash from Xilinx as offer to run on the ARM-Cores.
edit: Former Altera, now Intel-FPGA isn't really better.
Prepare for a world of hurt, if doing anything with FPGAs, and their proprietary tool chains. Prepare for another world of hurt, if thinking they would be supported by open-source tool chains in a sufficient way, or that the the few alternative solutions which are fully supported by them would be enough.
I'll show myself out now...(rambling)
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/105/materials/slides-10...
https://legacy.netdevconf.info/0x14/pub/slides/39/Netdev%200...
https://smartnicssummit.com/proceeding_files/a0q5f000000lcIn...
They do but many are closed source. Dell and HP have their own ilo/drac cards that run Linux but they have since locked them down. A while back someone here linked an unrestricted ilo card, I will see if I still have the link.
[Edit] I believe this [1] is what someone linked here a while ago. In the embeded video, he talks about some other more inclusive options.
[1] - https://hackaday.com/2022/09/20/raspberry-pi-grants-remote-a...
What’s your usecase? Might be able to get better recommendations if you can tell us what you’re trying to do.
Ideally the card would have a TPM module and supports some sort of signed boot/firmware validation.
I know I'm being a bit coy, but hopefully that helps you understand the requirements a bit better?