Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268070AbUIPNeK (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:34:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268065AbUIPNeJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:34:09 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:29361 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268074AbUIPNdJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:33:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:33:01 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Alan Cox Cc: Lincoln Dale , Jeff Garzik , "David S. Miller" , paul@clubi.ie, netdev@oss.sgi.com, leonid.grossman@s2io.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The ultimate TOE design Message-ID: <20040916133301.GA15562@wotan.suse.de> References: <20040915141346.5c5e5377.davem@davemloft.net> <4148991B.9050200@pobox.com> <1095275660.20569.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4148A90F.80003@pobox.com> <20040915140123.14185ede.davem@davemloft.net> <20040915210818.GA22649@havoc.gtf.org> <20040915141346.5c5e5377.davem@davemloft.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20040916192213.04240008@171.71.163.14> <1095337159.22739.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1095337159.22739.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 18 On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:19:21PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2004-09-16 at 10:29, Lincoln Dale wrote: > > . . . this ignore the realities of power restrictions of PCI today . . . > > sure, one could create a PCI card that takes a power-connector, but that > > don't scale so well either . . . > > At 1Ghz the Athlon Geode NX draws about 6W. Thats less than my SCSI Are you sure that's worst case, not average? Worst case is usually much worse on a big CPU like an Athlon, but the power supply has to be sized for it. -Andi - 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/