From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 7 21:33:25 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 2704116A418 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:33:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidch@broadcom.com) Received: from mms2.broadcom.com (mms2.broadcom.com [216.31.210.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F094E13C461 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:33:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidch@broadcom.com) Received: from [10.10.64.154] by mms2.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom SMTP Relay (Email Firewall v6.3.2)); Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:33:13 -0800 X-Server-Uuid: D3C04415-6FA8-4F2C-93C1-920E106A2031 Received: by mail-irva-10.broadcom.com (Postfix, from userid 47) id 78BE72AF; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:33:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-irva-8.broadcom.com (mail-irva-8 [10.10.64.221]) by mail-irva-10.broadcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64C372AE; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:33:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-irva-12.broadcom.com (mail-irva-12.broadcom.com [10.11.16.101]) by mail-irva-8.broadcom.com (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id GJV21113; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:33:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com ( nt-irva-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com [10.8.194.64]) by mail-irva-12.broadcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18C4769CA3; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:33:13 -0800 (PST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:33:05 -0800 Message-ID: <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD903072CEB17@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <47AB7821.2060205@elischer.org> Thread-Topic: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development thread-index: Achp0H9w3JkOMvjuRPankonEcdJJzAAACzcw References: <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD903072CEB06@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> <47AB7821.2060205@elischer.org> From: "David Christensen" To: "Julian Elischer" X-WSS-ID: 6BB5A6932Y84363925-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org 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 21:33:25 -0000 > > 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. > > look at getting a PG powerPC off ebay.. >=20 > (I can help you set it up if you wish.. > I just did a dozen of them for work). >=20 > I like that option because then you can help debug why > this ppc system can't run reliably with this > broadcom phy on the gem driver :-) Do you have a specific make and model number you can suggest? Dave