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Re: AltQ


On 01-Feb-00 Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> 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.

Couldn't we use the same majors across platforms ? Do they diverge that much ?

> 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.

Wow, low-level coding... What archs do have such features (do we consider
variants like 68360 <-> m68k; of course they are not supported) ?
Let's go to the datasheets ...

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

These will have to be checked, definitely.