Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:22:06 -0400 From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> To: 'Ruslan Ermilov' <ru@freebsd.org>, Paul Saab <ps@mu.org> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Looking for a Broadcom BCM5704 datasheet Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337051D8C5D@mail.sandvine.com>
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From: Ruslan Ermilov [mailto:ru@freebsd.org] > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:40:07AM -0700, Paul Saab wrote: > > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > >Dear networkers, > > > > > >I'm looking for a Broadcom BCM5704[S] technical datasheet. > If anyone has > > >such a beast, or knows how one could obtain it, please let me know. > > > > > > > > > > > As john pointed out, you can only get this under NDA from > broadcom. > > What exactly are you trying to solve? I have the latest > documentation > > so I may be able to help you, but I can't give you the docs. > > > We hoped that with dual-channel NIC we could be able to just move > the received frame from one port for TX on another port, to overcome > the 32-bit PCI bus speed limitation, to get better thoroughput with > GigE. Bill Paul already explained in private that they are actually > two distinct SRAMs, and the operation we needed is not supported > (without PCI involved). > I believe it is 64-bit 133MHz PCI-X.
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