Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:37:43 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: jesse@wingnet.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zlib hardware acceleration Message-ID: <31371.1074929863@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:07:29 EST." <bus9fh$arh$1@sea.gmane.org>
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In message <bus9fh$arh$1@sea.gmane.org>, Jesse Guardiani writes: >Howdy list, > >I've seen a few gzip hardware acceleration PCI cards >for HTTP servers and such on the web. Mostly they target >Linux though. > >Does anyone make something like this for FreeBSD? Can it >be used to accelerate everything that uses zlib? > >I ask because it would be useful to compress disk-destined >backups on an old "CPU-challenged" machine. And besides, >it would make a REALLY cool toy. :) I belive the VPN1401 from www.soekris.com has the ability but as I understand it we're short the required documentation from Hifn to control the chip. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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