Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device

Alan Cox
2001-02-14T13:10:54Z

> 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.

You want to copy_checksum the frame on these platforms, or better yet use
a decent network card that can start the frame on odd word alignment. You need
either the CPU or card to be able to handle misaligns efficiently.