Re: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

2008-02-07 Thread Julian Elischer
David Christensen wrote: I want to do some wider testing on non-Intel based systems with current and new Broadcom drivers. Feel free to email me directly if you have a suggestion. look at getting a PG powerPC off ebay.. (I can help you set it up if you wish.. I just did a dozen of them for wor

RE: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

2008-02-07 Thread David Christensen
> > I want to do some wider testing on non-Intel based systems with > > current and new Broadcom drivers. Feel free to email me directly > > if you have a suggestion. > > look at getting a PG powerPC off ebay.. > > (I can help you set it up if you wish.. > I just did a dozen of them for work). >

Re: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

2008-02-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Claudio Jeker wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:05:51PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: I'm looking for a recommendation for a big endian CPU system that works well with FreeBSD. It would be best if it didn't use a 4KB page size but that's a secondary issue. The system should support PCI Expre

Re: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

2008-02-07 Thread Julian Elischer
David Christensen wrote: I'm looking for a recommendation for a big endian CPU system that works well with FreeBSD. It would be best if it didn't use a 4KB page size but that's a secondary issue. The system should support PCI Express with at least two x8 slots and PCI-X would be a plus. A half-

Re: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

2008-02-07 Thread Kip Macy
For sun4u FreeBSD only supports up through USII which I doubt comes in any PCI-e systems. sun4v of course only comes with PCI-e but isn't really in a production-worthy state right now. -Kip On Feb 7, 2008 1:17 PM, Claudio Jeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:05:51PM -0

Re: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

2008-02-07 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:05:51PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > I'm looking for a recommendation for a big endian CPU system that > works well with FreeBSD. It would be best if it didn't use a 4KB > page size but that's a secondary issue. The system should support > PCI Express with at least

Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

2008-02-07 Thread David Christensen
I'm looking for a recommendation for a big endian CPU system that works well with FreeBSD. It would be best if it didn't use a 4KB page size but that's a secondary issue. The system should support PCI Express with at least two x8 slots and PCI-X would be a plus. A half-height or full-height rack