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SubjectRe: TCP SYNs broken in 2.3.41
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 03:44:56PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> The networking also requires that unaligned load/store will work
> in the kernel. If you don't handle this, then IPX, Appletalk, and
> some of the other more esoteric protocols will simply not work
> on your platform.

earlier processors such as ARM2 and ARM3 (8MHz and up to 35MHz
respectively) can't support unaligned load/store. they don't trap,
they just silently exhibit some interesting behaviour :-)

I thought we had {get,put}_unaligned() macros so that people could
write handlers for these protocols? Not that I think support for weird
protocols is a high-priority matter for machines which are limited to
16MB of RAM.

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