Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 09:53:53 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, freebsd-alpha@infopuls.com, alpha@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0 Message-ID: <20060519165353.GA770@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20060519111519.GA1587@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060518101734.4036.qmail@dachs.cyberlink.ch> <20060519082621.GA736@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060519094154.GA10634@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060519111519.GA1587@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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Peter Jeremy wrote this message on Fri, May 19, 2006 at 21:15 +1000:
> >Well.. if you just count the problems with unaligned accesses etc
> >I wonder if SPARC64 fills that gap? I just don't know enough about
> >SPARC64 here, mind you.
>
> SPARC definitely requires aligned accesses. I'm not sure what Sun
> did with the SPARC64. The other option is to set the "alignment
> checking" bit on i386.
We also now have arm and ppc that help fill the aligned access
requirements.. And I've done a bit of work with arm to try to make
our IP stack more friendly to alignment required machines, and ethernet
cards that can't handle special alignment...
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