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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
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Subject: Re: changes to make ethernet packets able to be unaligned...
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

> Ok, since you wanted to look at it more... I have a working copy of
> making packets alignment safe for ip in p4 at as change 73150:
> http://perforce.freebsd.org/changeView.cgi?CH=73150&ignore=GO%21
>
> This currently is only for arm and I plan to now remove the code from
> epe.c that copies the packet around since it's really stupid, and
> considering how easily NetBSD did this (it took about about 5 minutes
> to get this code running), I'm ashamed that I didn't do this a while
> back when I was working on if_re...
>
> Comments please?

I'm confused - don't sparc64 and alpha have similar alignment 
requirements?  Why does arm require code changes?

Mike "Silby" Silbersack