From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:22:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F7475F2.3040207@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m37k3viiqp.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org
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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2003-09-26 17:04 ` NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 Andi Kleen
2003-09-26 17:22 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-09-26 17:47 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-27 3:57 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-27 4:36 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-27 4:52 ` David Mosberger
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2003-09-27 4:26 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-27 4:34 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-27 23:36 ` David S. Miller
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2003-09-26 15:14 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-26 15:41 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-26 6:16 Manfred Spraul
2003-09-26 6:07 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-26 6:41 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-26 14:38 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-09-27 3:12 ` David S. Miller
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2003-09-23 22:58 Luck, Tony
2003-09-23 23:32 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24 5:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-23 18:21 Luck, Tony
2003-09-23 18:29 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 18:45 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:51 ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-23 18:51 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 20:38 ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-23 20:45 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 22:35 ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-23 23:35 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24 0:13 ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-24 0:04 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24 1:58 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-23 19:04 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 18:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-23 18:52 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-23 19:01 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-23 19:08 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-23 19:22 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 23:15 ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-23 23:37 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24 0:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-24 0:06 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-23 19:11 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 19:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-23 21:00 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-23 21:16 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24 1:47 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 17:58 Van Maren, Kevin
2003-09-23 17:57 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:27 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 18:47 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:17 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 19:10 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 20:00 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24 3:08 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-25 16:11 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-09-26 1:12 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:06 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 19:11 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-19 4:16 Peter Chubb
2003-09-19 4:38 ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-19 4:43 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-19 5:01 ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-19 5:53 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-19 10:49 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 0:34 ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-23 0:36 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 6:22 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 10:40 ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-23 10:51 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 14:59 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 17:27 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 17:56 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24 2:55 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 23:04 ` Ian Wienand
2003-09-23 23:35 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-19 5:04 ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-19 5:11 ` Peter Chubb
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