[rescue] Survey: what do you want in _your_ SPARC?

[Mike Nicewonger]

Cheap fast E.

is my vote.

Mike N
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Lockwood" <james at foonly.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 6:07 PM
Subject: [rescue] Survey: what do you want in _your_ SPARC?


> As some of you may know, I've been doing driver development for PCI cards
> in SPARCs for a while.  My contractural obligations for earlier work have
> been discharged, so I'm free to do some stuff on the side.
> 
> To that end, I'd like to ask the owners (or prospective owners) of PCI
> SPARC gear what they consider to be the biggest hole in Sun's PCI card
> lineup (or, the area that is far too overpriced).  Thoughts that come to
> mind, in no particular order:
> 
> Audio/Video capture cards
> Gig ethernet and fast ethernet cards
> LVD and FCAL cards, including RAID
> PCI IDE cards (oh, the pain)
> Crypto accelerators
> Multiport serial cards
> Interesting USB and firewire drivers (OHCI cards already supported)
> 
> Any other suggestions?  Video cards themselves are a highly obvious
> target, but meshing with Sun's X server is quite complex.
> 
> If a large number of people agreed on a single type of card, I'd
> definitely pursue it.
> 
> -James
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