From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 7 21:21:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 561B016A47D for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:21:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com (qb-out-0506.google.com [72.14.204.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB7313C468 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:21:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id o24so4610163qba.1 for ; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:21:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=AtNEedBTR1N6Xu/fWTNkTOWsJ1Ao4nC+nAaRHF1Wsoc=; b=Md2LgZD9HOipwJz+NMPtspYqDlv6I2M58xwg7OrejCpdZie7gQvgu75L8eJrLIS3rnkbwCFefgW53nkQr9sflfUfVS368AHuPxO2U8qhP+VRwtWKkOtntgf36++vxZTmpFPEpgQZssdwJbgfjoLYHoudZyP9NcncM2GiK552PIE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GWMPXSjcJq95oZdbwwxgMruvvIF1OMWCC2FwMEvpMDXqKqmC1ZOs1S5XrqF2t47WSS4AVR86HcHCXrR8treANRT1GZO2ZIP9LzUa3NOpRPCQE1Lo22d3WsObP7yAI5TB6Ucs3YEQ39/uTZwDSky4qa8JfwVsszRo8qiKxp7Mgio= Received: by 10.114.154.1 with SMTP id b1mr4333629wae.118.1202419314143; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:21:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.255.16 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:21:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:21:54 -0800 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Claudio Jeker" , freebsd-net@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080207211718.GA22042@diehard.n-r-g.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD903072CEB06@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> <20080207211718.GA22042@diehard.n-r-g.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:21:57 -0000 For sun4u FreeBSD only supports up through USII which I doubt comes in any PCI-e systems. sun4v of course only comes with PCI-e but isn't really in a production-worthy state right now. -Kip On Feb 7, 2008 1:17 PM, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:05:51PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > I'm looking for a recommendation for a big endian CPU system that > > works well with FreeBSD. It would be best if it didn't use a 4KB > > page size but that's a secondary issue. The system should support > > PCI Express with at least two x8 slots and PCI-X would be a plus. > > A half-height or full-height rack style chassis would be best, > > though a tower configuration would also be suitable. > > > > I want to do some wider testing on non-Intel based systems with > > current and new Broadcom drivers. Feel free to email me directly > > if you have a suggestion. > > > > sparc64 but only the newer and bigger boxes have PCIe ports. > Btw. sparc64 is not only big-endian, it has 8k pages (at least I think > FreeBSD uses the 8k ones like the other BSDs) is strict aligned and uses > an IOMMU for DMA. If it works on sparc64 it has good chances to work on > most other boxes as well. > > -- > :wq Claudio > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >