Looking for a Broadcom BCM5704 datasheet
Don Bowman
don at sandvine.com
Fri May 14 12:22:10 PDT 2004
From: Ruslan Ermilov [mailto:ru at freebsd.org]
> On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:40:07AM -0700, Paul Saab wrote:
> > Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >
> > >Dear networkers,
> > >
> > >I'm looking for a Broadcom BCM5704[S] technical datasheet.
> If anyone has
> > >such a beast, or knows how one could obtain it, please let me know.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > As john pointed out, you can only get this under NDA from
> broadcom.
> > What exactly are you trying to solve? I have the latest
> documentation
> > so I may be able to help you, but I can't give you the docs.
> >
> We hoped that with dual-channel NIC we could be able to just move
> the received frame from one port for TX on another port, to overcome
> the 32-bit PCI bus speed limitation, to get better thoroughput with
> GigE. Bill Paul already explained in private that they are actually
> two distinct SRAMs, and the operation we needed is not supported
> (without PCI involved).
>
I believe it is 64-bit 133MHz PCI-X.
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