Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:19:58 -0700 | | From | Tony Lee <> | | Subject | Re: PCI coprocessors |
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:16:19 +0200, Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net> wrote: > Tonnerre wrote: > > Salut, > > > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 12:01:25PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > >>I have long dreamed of being able to add a PCI card to my x86 system, a > >>PCI card containing a processor (of any type), RAM, and an ethernet > >>interface. I would use this for routing, or iSCSI, or network offload... > > > > > > Such as the i386 co-computer card for older Macintosh computers? (I > > can't remember what it was called.) > > I've recently seen several ia32 PCI boards, with network, cpu, ram, etc. > that works in modern PC's. Can't recall any names just now though. Not > sure if they had any communication with the host over PCI either.
If you can get access to SDK for Broadcom 5704 (570x?) , you have GIGE nic card with 2 133MHz MIPS CPU, one for TX, onr for RX.
Most of the NIC cards with BCM chip should be < $50.
Maybe enough of us bugging Broadcom, they will open up the SDK.
-- -Tony Having a lot of fun with Xilinx Virtex Pro II reconfigurable HW + ppc + Linux - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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