[Open-graphics] [urgent] Last minute opportunity for OGD1, perhaps video in?

[Philipp Klaus Krause]

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Lourens Veen schrieb:

> While shopping for a new server at work I ran across a configuration 
> that had a "Broadcom TCP/IP offload engine". It would only work on 
> Windows 2003 Server. I'm not sure if these things are common and 
> whether there are any that work with Linux, but given the amount of 
> Linux-based servers out there it could be a useful product, and a 
> network interface of some kind would be very useful then.

There are such devices supported by Linux. Some people, like Alan Cox
don't like them though
(http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/9/10/191698).
Offloading TCP/IP stuff to the network adapter improves performance, but
makes detection of data corruption less likely.

Philipp
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