Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-05-08T17:32:49Z

Krzysztof Halasa schrieb:
> Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> 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)?

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Tomasz Chmielewski