Subject: Re: The ultimate TOE design

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:41:51 -0400

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2004-09-15 at 21:04, Paul Jakma wrote:
> 
>>The intel IXP's are like the above, XScale+extra-bits host-on-a-PCI 
>>card running Linux. Or is that what you were referring to with 
>>"<cards exist> but they are all fairly expensive."?
> 
> 
> Last time I checked 2Ghz accelerators for intel and AMD were quite cheap
> and also had the advantage they ran user mode code when idle from
> network processing.

The point was more to show people who are doing TOE _anyway_ to a decent 
design.

As I said in another post, "just don't bother with TOE" is a very valid 
answer with today's CPUs.

	Jeff