From: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:11:21 +1000
To: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>,
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Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64
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>>>>> "Grant" == Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com> writes:

Grant> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 06:43:15AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

Grant> Same is true for TX/RX descriptor addresses.  Behavior is
Grant> undefined if the addresses for DMA are not 4-byte aligned.

Grant> Anyone know if that's true for NS83820?  I couldn't find which
Grant> driver controls that chip/NIC via a quick grep.

I believe it is, based on the experiments I've done here, and on
looking at the BSD driver.

Driver is drivers/net/ns83820.c

Peter C
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