Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

[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 <cjeker at diehard.n-r-g.com> 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 Express with at least two x8 slots and PCI-X would be a plus.
> > A half-height or full-height rack style chassis would be best,
> > though a tower configuration would also be suitable.
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> sparc64 but only the newer and bigger boxes have PCIe ports.
> Btw. sparc64 is not only big-endian, it has 8k pages (at least I think
> FreeBSD uses the 8k ones like the other BSDs) is strict aligned and uses
> an IOMMU for DMA.  If it works on sparc64 it has good chances to work on
> most other boxes as well.
>
> --
> :wq Claudio
>
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