Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

[Tupshin Harper]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > * "hardware firewall" -- sounds silly.  Pretty sure Linux doesn't support
> > it in any case.
> >
> >    
>
> probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in
> software, just like the "hardware" IDE raid is most of the time (3ware
> being the positive exception there)
Incorrect. While the logic is is almost certainly implemented in the 
drivers, there is silicon acceleration of the functionality built into 
the Nforce4 chipset (unlike the nforce3), and requires almost no CPU 
time to do its job. Nvidia calls this chipset support ActiveArmor.

-Tupshin
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