On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

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.

Indeed.

Unfortunately though, my vague understanding is, the interesting bits 
on the IXP, the microengines, are integrated with the XScale ASIC.

I agree it's silly to stick a general purpose CPU in there, but you 
get it for "free" anyway.

regards,
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