Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:08:50 +0000 | From | Jonathan Morton <> | Subject | Re: New net features for added performance |
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At 2:32 am +0000 25/2/2001, Jeremy Jackson wrote: >Jeff Garzik wrote: > >(about optimizing kernel network code for busmastering NIC's) > >> Disclaimer: This is 2.5, repeat, 2.5 material. > >Related question: are there any 100Mbit NICs with cpu's onboard? >Something mainstream/affordable?(i.e. not 1G ethernet) >Just recently someone posted asking some technical question about >ARMlinux for and intel card with 2 1G ports, 8 100M ports, >an onboard ARM cpu and 4 other uControllers... seems to me >that ultimately the networking code should go in that direction: >immagine having the *NIC* do most of this... no cache pollution problems...
Dunno, but the latest Motorola ColdFire microcontroller has Ethernet built in. I think it's even 100baseTX, but I could be mistaken.
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