Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Jan 2000 23:04:27 -0500 | From | willy@thepuffi ... | Subject | Re: TCP SYNs broken in 2.3.41 |
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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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