Re: [MirageOS-devel] Mirage on Xen/ARM status

[Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19 Jun 2014, at 12:24, Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Perhaps the ones complement stuff should be moved out of
> mirage-platform anyway? It seems to be specific to networking, rather
> than to any particular platform. I see there's also a third version in
> the ns3 directory, which always returns zero.

yes; ones complement checksums are used in several IP protocols. i don't know 
that they're used elsewhere (storage, etc). i guess efficient implementations 
are likely to be platform specific, though perhaps one would expect the 
compiler to dtrt rather than hand tweaking.

-- 
Cheers,

R.

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