| To: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: alignment issues on netif_rx |
| From: | Kai Germaschewski <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:30:45 +0100 (CET) |
| Cc: | "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>, <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
| In-reply-to: | <20001216125146.D6896@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Sender: | owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:06:21AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > > No, the MIPS port must handle unaligned memory accesses traps > > in kernel mode and fix them up. Every port is required to > > do this, these can happen anywhere in the networking. > > We do handle them on MIPS - since ca. '95 or so ... I think they're doing their own port to some special hardware - anyway, I take it they have to fix it to handle the unaligned accesses. Thanks to everyone. --Kai |
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