Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 10 May 2002 11:04:27 -0500 | From | Nicholas Harring <> | Subject | Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver |
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Obviously some form of driver is necessary to access the device, whether or not we're pushing fully formed IP packets or raw payload. Or is that a userland problem and I'm just not understanding the flow from userspace through the kernel and to the driver properly?
Cheers, Nicholas Harring
David S. Miller wrote: > From: Nicholas Harring <nharring@hostway.net> > Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:51:06 -0500 > > And how about when an SMP system isn't enough? > > Demonstrate this. > > Putting the whole implementation on the cards firmware is feasible, > you don't need SMP. It's totally doable and Linux needs to see > none of the details. > > Franks a lot, > David S. Miller > davem@redhat.com > - > 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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