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From: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@evil.netppl.fi>
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Subject: Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:37:15AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> Pete Wyckoff writes:
>  > We're currently working on using both processors
>  > of the Tigon in parallel.
> 
> It is my understanding that on the Tigon2, the second processor is
> only for working around hw bugs in the DMA controller of the board and
> cannot be used for other tasks.
> 
> WRT. tigon3, it was mentioned on this list that it is a pair of arm9
> cpus, one for rx and one for tx.
> 
Might be worth asking broadcom instead of 3com for the specs, 
as they seem to be selling it as a chip (BCM5700/5701), whereas 3com sells a
board (3c996).

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Pekka Pietikainen