Bear with me and allow me my delusions while I daydream...
What with FPGA technology as reasonable as it is, and the amount of hw/sw
talent on these lists, maybe people should band together and come up with
a NIC? Maybe have native mode + Tulip/PNIC clone compatibility mode.
Take a look at
:What production volumes are required before ASICs are feasible? What
:about having a FreeBSD CDROM + NIC bundle featuring whatever card gets
:designed?
:
:If ya can't join 'em, beat 'em.
:
:Okay. Back to work and reality. :-)
:
:Eddy
Designing an ASIC will have an NRE of probably around
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:03:33PM +, E.B. Dreger scribbled:
| Bear with me and allow me my delusions while I daydream...
|
| What with FPGA technology as reasonable as it is, and the amount of hw/sw
| talent on these lists, maybe people should band together and come up with
| a NIC? Maybe
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