Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 12:27:59 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:

The solution proposed by Ivan sounds much better. The basic problem
is that the Ethernet header is not a multiple of 4 and that misaligns
everything after it.

At least some hardware will offset the incoming packet by two bytes to align everything. Whatever mechanism we end up using, it would be nice if it could make use of the hardware that is capable of this.

Chris

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