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Date:      Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:40:41 +1000
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/include _types.h src/sys/i386/include _types.h src/sys/net if_bridge.c src/sys/netinet ip_var.h        src/sys/netinet6 ip6_var.h
Message-ID:  <42C90419.8070509@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200507022313.j62NDWYC028248@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200507022313.j62NDWYC028248@repoman.freebsd.org>

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>   Check the alignment of the IP header before passing the packet up to the
>   packet filter. This would cause a panic on architectures that require strict
>   alignment such as sparc64 (tier1) and ia64/ppc (tier2).

  FYI, any modern ppc implementation doesn't require strict alignment 
for integer load/stores though there's a performance penalty for having 
to split the access into smaller ones.

later,

Peter.



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