lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2007]   [May]   [8]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS
Alexey Zaytsev schrieb:
> On 5/8/07, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org> wrote:
>> Michael Jones wrote:
>>
>> >> +#ifndef __ARMEB__
>> >> +#warning Little endian mode not supported
>> >> +#endif
>> >
>> > Personally I'm less fussed about WAN / LE support. Anyone with any
>> > sense will run ixp4xx boards doing such a specialised network
>> > operation as BE. Also, NSLU2-Linux can't test this functionality with
>> > our LE setup as we don't have this hardware on-board. You may just
>> > want to declare a depends on ARMEB in Kconfig (with or without OR
>> > (ARM || BROKEN) ) and have done with it - it's up to you.
>>
>> Christian Hohnstaedt's work did support LE though.
>>
>> Not all ixp4xx boards are by definition "doing such a specialised
>> network operation".
>>
>
> I was always curious, why do people want to run ixp4xx in LE mode? What
> are the benefits that overweight the obvious performance degradation?

I guess the main reason, at least for me, is that there is only one
distro that properly supports LE ARM: Debian.

It greatly simplifies management/administration of a higher number of
devices, given the fact that Debian also supports other architectures
(not just x86/64, sometimes PPC, like most distros do).


Not always network performance is to most important factor.


--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

-
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/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2007-05-08 10:59    [W:0.218 / U:0.112 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site