From: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
To: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Andre Bonin <kernel@bonin.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI coprocessors
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:16:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <414AB973.5070408@tomt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040915223906.GA26458@thundrix.ch>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-17 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-15 12:55 PCI coprocessors Andre Bonin
2004-09-15 12:30 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-15 13:44 ` Matti Aarnio
2004-09-15 13:45 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-09-15 14:55 ` Tomasz Rola
2004-09-15 15:15 ` Andre Bonin
2004-09-15 16:49 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-16 0:12 ` Tomasz Rola
2004-09-15 16:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 22:39 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-17 10:16 ` Andre Tomt [this message]
2004-09-17 16:19 ` Tony Lee
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