Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269012AbUIXTj1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:39:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269045AbUIXTj1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:39:27 -0400 Received: from darkwing.uoregon.edu ([128.223.142.13]:54157 "EHLO darkwing.uoregon.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269012AbUIXTjS (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:39:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:39:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Jaeggli X-X-Sender: joelja@twin.uoregon.edu To: Lennert Buytenhek cc: Leonid Grossman , "'David S. Miller'" , "'Jeff Garzik'" , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, paul@clubi.ie, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The ultimate TOE design In-Reply-To: <20040924180915.GB26922@xi.wantstofly.org> Message-ID: References: <20040924130738.GB24093@xi.wantstofly.org> <200409241321.i8ODLf39012346@guinness.s2io.com> <20040924180915.GB26922@xi.wantstofly.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1763 Lines: 40 On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > >> I was referring to the server side. >> One can certanly build a 10GbE box based on IPX2800 (or some other parts), >> but at 17-25W it is not usable in NICs since the entire PCI card budget is >> less than that - nothing left for 10GbE PHY, memory, etc. I have a graphics card which requires two four pin molex power connectors, going back in time there have allway been certain perphiral cards which required external (non-bus supplied power sources for whatever reason) (hard-drive on a card, sparc on a card, pc on a card, early 90's hardware mpeg encoder, data collection device, remote mangement card, graphics card in modern mac etc), it's obviously not a general solution, but it's been done frequently enough that it shouldn't just be discarded out of hand. > Ah, ok, that makes sense. As someone else also noted, the IXP2800 > only has a 64/66 PCI interface anyway, so it wouldn't really be > suitable for the task you were referring to. > > > cheers, > Lennert > - > 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/ > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 - 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/