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Re: AltQ

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Thierry Deval wrote:

 | Yes, that was my idea. (with the approval of the high players :-)
 | 
 | We should also try to extend AltQ beyond the x86 platform. (in collaboration
 | with the NetBSD team)
 | Kenjiro, what would be the main difficulties in implementing AltQ on other
 | CPUs ?
 | 

Making ALTQ work on other platforms requires that you allocate a device major
number for altq.  Also, if the architecture has a special high resolution
timer (like the pentium's TSC timer) then support should be added in
altq/altq_subr.c.

This is mostly trivial work.. Also I wonder if ALTQ is big endian or 64-bit
clean... 

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