Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934420AbXEHRcw (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 13:32:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934131AbXEHRcv (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 13:32:51 -0400 Received: from mail.syneticon.net ([213.239.212.131]:41911 "EHLO mail2.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965337AbXEHRct (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 13:32:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4640B3EE.1020707@wpkg.org> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 19:31:26 +0200 From: Tomasz Chmielewski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061110 Mandriva/1.5.0.8-1mdv2007.1 (2007.1) Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krzysztof Halasa Cc: Lennert Buytenhek , Alexey Zaytsev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Michael Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS References: <464034CF.20700@wpkg.org> <20070508155201.GA1251@xi.wantstofly.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 866 Lines: 26 Krzysztof Halasa schrieb: > Lennert Buytenhek writes: > >> There _is_ an ARM BE version of Debian. >> >> It's not an official port, but it's not maintained any worse than >> the 'official' LE ARM Debian port is. > > Hmm... That changes a bit. Perhaps we should forget about > that LE thing then, and (at best) put that trivial workaround? Does using ixp4xx on LE have any other drawbacks than inferior network performance? And talking about network performance, what numbers are we talking about (LE vs BE; 30% performance hit on LE, more, or less)? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org - 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/