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From: Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > It does. It does so on IA64 now as well. The only architecture which has troubles
> > with alignment on IP frames now is ARM2
> 
> So the IA64-specific PKT_CAN_COPY code in starfire can go away
> completely?  Jes, can you test such w/ the latest kernel and starfire,
> less your IA64-specific code?

The way I understand it, IA64 and Alpha cope with it, but at the expense 
of taking an exception for each packet -- so it's not worth it.

Ion

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            than to open it and remove all doubt.

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