nicologiuliani6/cavium-cn6640-snic10e-octeon-ii-nic
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Out-of-tree Linux driver stack and boot tooling for the Cavium CN6640-SNIC10E (Octeon II, PCI 177d:0092), exposing the card as two independent 10 GbE interfaces (oct0/oct1) over a reverse-engineered PCIe BAR2 shared-memory datapath. Host module (octnic), on-card OpenWrt modules (octshm_card/octcarrier), serial-free host bootloader (octboot).
3 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 3 stories, 0 comments · first 2026-09-02 · latest 2026-09-17
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Show HN: Out-of-tree Linux driver for a reverse-engineered Cavium 10GbE SmartNICstory by nicologiuliani6 · 2026-09-17 · 0 comments
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I reverse-engineered a $13 "dead" 10GbE SmartNIC into a working cardstory by nicologiuliani6 · 2026-09-07 · 0 comments
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Turned a $15 eBay "smart NIC" nobody could get working into a real 10GbE cardstory by mchan · 2026-09-02 · 0 comments