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From: "Gordon Farquharson" <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 07:44:23 -0600
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On 5/8/07, Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was always curious, why do people want to run ixp4xx in LE mode? What
> are the benefits that overweight the obvious performance degradation?

Debian on the NSLU2 runs in LE, and it is pretty popular.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3535328630.html

Gordon

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Gordon Farquharson