The following reply was made to PR kern/31323; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Murata Shuuichirou <mrt@notwork.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/31323: vge on !i386 is broken.
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:08:09 +0900

 In message <87ll1xle1t.fsf@fons-adae.s.notwork.org>,
  `mrt@notwork.org' wrote:
 > So, I can't say "my patch is correct", yet.  I'll test vge without
 > VGE_FIXUP_RX against amd64 machine, later today.
 
 It works fine for me without VGE_FIXUP_RX, so I think VGE_FIXUP_RX
 is not needed for non strict alignment architectures.  Therefore,
 following patch is enough to fix the problem and previous one
 should be discarded.
 -- 
 MURATA Shuuichirou
 
 Index: if_vgevar.h
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/mrt/src/netbsdcvs/src/sys/dev/pci/if_vgevar.h,v
 retrieving revision 1.1
 diff -u -r1.1 if_vgevar.h
 --- if_vgevar.h	20 Feb 2005 18:34:33 -0000	1.1
 +++ if_vgevar.h	16 Sep 2005 15:49:50 -0000
 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
   * $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/vge/if_vgevar.h,v 1.2 2005/01/06 01:43:31 imp Exp $
   */
  
 -#if !defined(__i386__)
 +#ifndef __NO_STRICT_ALIGNMENT
  #define VGE_FIXUP_RX
  #endif
  
 @@ -143,9 +143,8 @@
  #define VGE_LOCK_ASSERT(x)	/* nothing */
  #endif
  
 -/* adjusting size of mbuf is not necessary on NetBSD */
  #ifndef ETHER_ALIGN
 -#  define	ETHER_ALIGN	0
 +#  define	ETHER_ALIGN	2
  #endif
  
  #define	VGE_POWER_MANAGEMENT	0	/* disabled for now */