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Date:      Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:01:35 +0000
From:      Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FBSD 1GBit router? 
Message-ID:  <200803030601.GAA01816@sopwith.solgatos.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:31:23 %2B0100." <47C93E8B.3010609@digiware.nl> 

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> > Hopefully there will be direct memory bus connected nic's in future. 
> > (HyperTransport connected nic's)
> 
> Well that is going to be an AMD only solution, and I'm not even shure
> that AMD would like to have other things than CPU's on that bus.

There are FPGAs that plug into a CPU socket (for mainboards with
multiple CPU sockets).  There will be GPUs on the HyperTransport bus.
Putting a network controller there seems a tad extreme.



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