From: Tupshin Harper <tupshin@tupshin.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:03:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4242905D.6000109@tupshin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1111656852.6290.47.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>* "hardware firewall" -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support
>>it in any case.
>>
>>
>>
>
>probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in
>software, just like the "hardware" IDE raid is most of the time (3ware
>being the positive exception there)
>
Incorrect. While the logic is is almost certainly implemented in the
drivers, there is silicon acceleration of the functionality built into
the Nforce4 chipset (unlike the nforce3), and requires almost no CPU
time to do its job. Nvidia calls this chipset support ActiveArmor.
-Tupshin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-24 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-24 9:20 How's the nforce4 support in Linux? Asfand Yar Qazi
2005-03-24 9:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-24 9:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-24 10:03 ` Tupshin Harper [this message]
2005-03-24 16:27 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-03-24 21:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-28 15:31 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-30 19:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-30 20:17 ` Indrek Kruusa
2005-03-30 20:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-30 20:48 ` Indrek Kruusa
2005-03-30 21:06 ` Francois Romieu
2005-03-30 21:47 ` Jeff Garzik
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[not found] ` <3Lxis-5a0-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <3Lxis-5a0-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <3Lxis-5a0-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-03-24 10:11 ` Asfand Yar Qazi
[not found] <3LwFC-4Ko-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <3LwYW-4Xx-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <3LwYZ-4Xx-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-03-24 10:00 ` Asfand Yar Qazi
2005-03-24 10:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-24 16:29 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-03-24 16:41 ` Raphael Jacquot
2005-03-24 20:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-25 2:15 ` Robert Hancock
2005-03-25 2:40 ` Lee Revell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-25 9:37 Chuck Ebbert
2005-03-25 22:59 Julien Wajsberg
2005-03-25 23:14 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-26 0:38 ` Julien Wajsberg
2005-03-26 0:48 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-29 18:58 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-03-29 20:40 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-30 15:00 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-03-30 16:45 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-03-30 19:19 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-03-30 21:01 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-31 5:58 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-03-25 23:20 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-26 0:17 ` Julien Wajsberg
2005-03-26 14:13 ` Michal Schmidt
2005-03-29 6:47 ` Julien Wajsberg
2005-03-25 23:21 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-25 23:41 ` Julien Wajsberg
2005-04-05 13:42 ` Julien Wajsberg
2005-04-05 14:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-04-05 22:58 ` Julien Wajsberg
2005-04-06 11:41 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-04-06 16:02 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-04-10 23:43 ` Julien Wajsberg
2005-04-10 23:27 ` Julien Wajsberg
2005-03-26 16:01 Chuck
2005-03-26 15:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-26 17:32 ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-03-27 12:26 ` Chuck
2005-04-02 23:55 ` Julien Wajsberg
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