Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:05:44 +0100 (IST) | From | Paul Jakma <> | Subject | Re: The ultimate TOE design |
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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.
Indeed.
Unfortunately though, my vague understanding is, the interesting bits on the IXP, the microengines, are integrated with the XScale ASIC.
I agree it's silly to stick a general purpose CPU in there, but you get it for "free" anyway.
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