cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/include _types.h src/sys/i386/include _types.h src/sys/net if_bridge.c src/sys/netinet ip_var.h src/sys/netinet6 ip6_var.h

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Mon Jul 4 09:40:49 GMT 2005


>   Check the alignment of the IP header before passing the packet up to the
>   packet filter. This would cause a panic on architectures that require strict
>   alignment such as sparc64 (tier1) and ia64/ppc (tier2).

  FYI, any modern ppc implementation doesn't require strict alignment 
for integer load/stores though there's a performance penalty for having 
to split the access into smaller ones.

later,

Peter.


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