Non-SoC target for ARM64

[Dave Taht]

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_subx at 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
>
>
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