Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device

Ion Badulescu
2001-02-14T12:54:40Z

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > It does. It does so on IA64 now as well. The only architecture which has troubles
> > with alignment on IP frames now is ARM2
>
> So the IA64-specific PKT_CAN_COPY code in starfire can go away
> completely? Jes, can you test such w/ the latest kernel and starfire,
> less your IA64-specific code?

The way I understand it, IA64 and Alpha cope with it, but at the expense
of taking an exception for each packet -- so it's not worth it.

Ion

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