On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:33:27PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> >>>Do you have specs that show that all nForce versions support unaligned
> >>>buffers? skb_reserve is a performance feature, I don't want to add it
> >>>yet. Testing that it works is on our TODO list.
> >>
> >>hmmmm, is nForce ever found on non-x86 boxes? I would think that
> >>skb_reserve might be -required- for some platforms.
> >
> >
> > AMD64 and PPC64 as far as I know. But you may consider the first one
> > still a x86 box.
>
> Hmmm. I thought only GeForce graphics were available on PPC64 and nForce
> mainboard chipsets (including the onboard nic) were not.
Well, my memory may be tricking me (I'm not really sure about this), but
I remember there was supposed to be a PPC64 northbridge with a HT link,
made exactly for the purpose of connecting an nForce southrbridge to it.
But it definitely is not in production yet.
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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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