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Re: AltQ


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.  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.

Right, that's my understanding too.

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

I'm planning to play with alpha, and possibly sparc.  I already got
machines for it but haven't had time to do the port.

Also, if someone knows how to read a high resolution timer on these
architecures (I believe they have one), please let me know.

-Kenjiro