Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/ic

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:10:06AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost wrote:
> 
> > > (though rtl8169.c should have some flag which indicates RTL8168 quirk,
> > >  which can't xfer RX packets into unaligned buffers)
> > 
> > So, we'd have a RE_ETHER_ALIGN(sc) macro that wraps it?  Sounds good.
> 
> I still wonder if RTL8168 could appear on !__NO_STRICT_ALIGNMENT hosts.

Dunno, but there are a few DSPs out there with ethernet interfaces
that require aligned RX buffers, but where the (big-endian) cpu can't
read misaligned data.  The h/w guys want shooting, 2 bytes of any-value
would do...

        David

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