Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267528AbUIOVK0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:10:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267527AbUIOVKX (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:10:23 -0400 Received: from [69.28.190.101] ([69.28.190.101]:50338 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267505AbUIOVJb (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:09:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:08:18 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: "David S. Miller" Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, paul@clubi.ie, netdev@oss.sgi.com, leonid.grossman@s2io.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The ultimate TOE design Message-ID: <20040915210818.GA22649@havoc.gtf.org> References: <4148991B.9050200@pobox.com> <1095275660.20569.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4148A90F.80003@pobox.com> <20040915140123.14185ede.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040915140123.14185ede.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 998 Lines: 30 On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:01:23PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:41:51 -0400 > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > The point was more to show people who are doing TOE _anyway_ to a decent > > design. > > We shouldn't be forced to refine people's non-sensible ideas which > we'll not support anyways. I just described a design that -we already support-. It's generic scalable model that has application outside the acronym "TOE". Did you read my message, or just see 'TOE' and nothing else? Sun used this model with their x86 cards. Total MP did something similar with their 4-processor PowerPC cards. There's nothing inherently wrong with sticking a computer running Linux inside another computer ;-) Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/