Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:43:13 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4] net: add Faraday FTMAC100 10/100 Ethernet driver | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert.chuang@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:07:48 +0800
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:51 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: >> Just emit garbage bytes into the sub-word alignment padding if the chip >> wants to word align it's DMA writes. > > Not sure what do you mean. The problem is that HW does not accept a > base address of RX buffer which is not 8 bytes aligned.
I am saying this is what hardware should do if it has such a restriction.
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