Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268658AbUIQKOO (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2004 06:14:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268662AbUIQKON (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2004 06:14:13 -0400 Received: from gw.pasop.tomt.net ([80.239.42.1]:32175 "EHLO puppen.tomt.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268658AbUIQKOM (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2004 06:14:12 -0400 Message-ID: <414AB973.5070408@tomt.net> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:16:19 +0200 From: Andre Tomt User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040819) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tonnerre Cc: Jeff Garzik , Andre Bonin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PCI coprocessors References: <41483BD3.4030405@bonin.ca> <41486755.3070207@pobox.com> <20040915223906.GA26458@thundrix.ch> In-Reply-To: <20040915223906.GA26458@thundrix.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 890 Lines: 21 Tonnerre wrote: > Salut, > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 12:01:25PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>I have long dreamed of being able to add a PCI card to my x86 system, a >>PCI card containing a processor (of any type), RAM, and an ethernet >>interface. I would use this for routing, or iSCSI, or network offload... > > > Such as the i386 co-computer card for older Macintosh computers? (I > can't remember what it was called.) I've recently seen several ia32 PCI boards, with network, cpu, ram, etc. that works in modern PC's. Can't recall any names just now though. Not sure if they had any communication with the host over PCI either. - 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/