On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, John Polstra wrote: JP>On 17-Aug-2004 Harti Brandt wrote: JP>> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: JP>> JP>> BAZ>Hi, JP>> BAZ> JP>> BAZ>It seems netgraph is only build on ia64 and i386. JP>> BAZ>Can someone please explain why ? JP>> JP>> Until around april I used all the ATM related Ng stuff regularily (this JP>> include ng_socket, all the stuff under netgraph/atm). I think this should JP>> just be enabled. Unless build problems have been introduced since then, JP>> it should just be enabled. JP> JP>There is one problem with netgraph on 64-bit platforms. The ng_msghdr JP>struct is 52 bytes / 4-byte aligned (see ng_message.h). That means JP>the message payload is not well-aligned for 64-bit platforms. It JP>would be nice to fix that (and bump NG_VERSION, of course). Nobody JP>ever guaranteed that the message payload would be aligned, but it JP>makes things a lot more convenient.
Oh. That would be good to fix. I assumed that the payload is correctly aligned and never checked that. This seems magically to work (even in the kernel). I suppose that cannot be fixed by check that a universe can be built? harti _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
