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Subject: Re: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC
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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.
> 

oops I didn't notice the PCI-e requirement.. I guess that lets out the
mac G4 machines.