Hacker News — vinext + Cloudflare Workers

28 points by mooreds 1 days ago | 7 comments

Animats 1 days ago [-]

Short version: "It turned out our chosen base address for the FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) bus had a default memory type of Normal Cached."

They accidentally put an external non-memory device behind the cache. That's never going to work right, but might work some of the time.

throwawaypath 19 hours ago [-]

An amateur embedded systems mistake in my opinion.

indigodaddy 23 hours ago [-]

Harkens me back to Sun/Sparc hardware and Solaris.

als0 1 days ago [-]

For the uninitiated, Service Processor (SP) is just another kind of Baseboard Management Controller.

hbogert 1 hours ago [-]

well you couldn't have known since the link to the SP is dead in the article, but saying it's a bmc is a bit of a stretch

wmf 22 hours ago [-]

Bryan's going to have an aneurysm.

bcantrill 19 hours ago [-]

I have died.

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