Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:21:54 -0800 From: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com> To: "Claudio Jeker" <cjeker@diehard.n-r-g.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development Message-ID: <b1fa29170802071321s65223115j7942e2654878d082@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080207211718.GA22042@diehard.n-r-g.com> References: <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD903072CEB06@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> <20080207211718.GA22042@diehard.n-r-g.com>
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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 <cjeker@diehard.n-r-g.com> 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" >
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