Deneb Ethernet Driver

[LoadWB]

Jose wrote:
With the Deneb a network adapter is using both the USB stack and a TCP/IP stack, so it has more overhead.

What I'd really like to see would be a ZorroIII to PCI adapter based on Deneb technology using burst mode

Another PCI interface might be nice.  I'm thinking in terms of a hardware-accelerated USB stack.  I imagine a micro-controller on the USB card running the stack (with flash for updates) and a client on the Amiga side would run pretty darn quickly.

[LoadWB]

platon42 wrote:

LoadWB wrote:
I'm thinking in terms of a hardware-accelerated USB stack.  I imagine a micro-controller on the USB card running the stack (with flash for updates) and a client on the Amiga side would run pretty darn quickly.

No it wouldn't. Most time is spent for memory copying, and a microcontroller won't help here, in fact it probably would be more of a bottleneck.

What's the difference between doing that and the TCP/IP hardware offloading provided by some server hardware?