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Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 04:29:09 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: TCP Segmentation Offloading (TSO)
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
   Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:27:59 +1000 (EST)
   
   I notice though that if the length is odd, we (PPC) put the last byte
   in the left-hand (most significant) byte of a 16-bit halfword, with
   zero in the other byte, and add it in, whereas i386 puts the last byte
   in the least-significant position.

What PPC does is correct for big endian.
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