From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261538AbTIZRXn (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:23:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261553AbTIZRXn (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:23:43 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:26336 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261538AbTIZRXl (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:23:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3F7475F2.3040207@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:22:58 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com