Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:21:20 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: changes to make ethernet packets able to be unaligned... Message-ID: <20050318021907.H844@odysseus.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20050317221359.GN89312@funkthat.com> References: <20050317221359.GN89312@funkthat.com>
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Ok, since you wanted to look at it more... I have a working copy of > making packets alignment safe for ip in p4 at as change 73150: > http://perforce.freebsd.org/changeView.cgi?CH=73150&ignore=GO%21 > > This currently is only for arm and I plan to now remove the code from > epe.c that copies the packet around since it's really stupid, and > considering how easily NetBSD did this (it took about about 5 minutes > to get this code running), I'm ashamed that I didn't do this a while > back when I was working on if_re... > > Comments please? I'm confused - don't sparc64 and alpha have similar alignment requirements? Why does arm require code changes? Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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