Alan Cox wrote:

On Mer, 2004-09-15 at 21:04, Paul Jakma wrote:

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The intel IXP's are like the above, XScale+extra-bits host-on-a-PCI 
card running Linux. Or is that what you were referring to with 
"<cards exist> but they are all fairly expensive."?

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.

The point was more to show people who are doing TOE _anyway_ to a decent 
design.

As I said in another post, "just don't bother with TOE" is a very valid 
answer with today's CPUs.

	Jeff