From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: TOE brain dump Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 21:01:31 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3F2C891B.7080004@candelatech.com> References: <20030802140444.E5798@almesberger.net> <3F2BF5C7.90400@us.ibm.com> <3F2C0C44.6020002@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Nivedita Singhvi , Werner Almesberger , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <3F2C0C44.6020002@pobox.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > So, fix the other end of the pipeline too, otherwise this fast network > stuff is flashly but pointless. If you want to serve up data from disk, > then start creating PCI cards that have both Serial ATA and ethernet > connectors on them :) Cut out the middleman of the host CPU and host I for one would love to see something like this, and not just Serial ATA.. but maybe 8x Serial ATA and RAID :) Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com