On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 09:27:58 -0800 (PST) 
 Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:

 > Where you are you getting the structures from? malloc? I dunno if NetBSD
 > kernel malloc guarantees alignment (it probably ought to- I note you alloc
 > M_USB class memory, but also M_TEMP- is that where alignment could be
 > controlled?)

the objects returned by NetBSD's kernel malloc are always longword-aligned.

the descriptors are probably DMA'd in.

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