Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:32:56 -0300 | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: TOE brain dump |
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Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote: > It makes not that much sense to run kernel (especially Linux) on CPU > which is optimized for handling of network packets. (And has actually > several co-processors to help in this task).
All you need to do is to make the CPU capable of running the kernel (well, some of it), but it doesn't have to be particularly good at running anything but the TCP/IP code. And you can still benefit from most of the features of NPUs, such as a specialized memory architecture, parallel data paths, accelerated operations, etc.
- Werner
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