[altq 759] Re: qc/qe* support

[Kenjiro Cho <kjc@csl.sony.co.jp>]

CCed to the altq mailing-list.

Paolo Supino wrote:
>     I have a SpartStation 5 with a qc/qe* NIC running OpenBSD 2.8
> running as a firewall at my office and I want to add ALTQ to the system
> to be able to do traffic shaping on the connections from the office out.
> I didn't see any mentioning of non x86 architectures or any NICs for non
> x86 architecture. Will I be able to use altq?

altq-3.0 supports i386 and alpha so that there shouldn't be a big
problem to support other platforms.  Currently, I don't have time and
resources to do it by myself, though.

Regarding the drivers, Jason Thorpe integrated ALTQ into
NetBSD-current and converted most of the NetBSD drivers ready for
ALTQ.  But I doubt anyone actually uses ALTQ on sparc.

For OpenBSD, I'm going to have a chance to work with the OpenBSD
main developers in June.  I expect some progress on ALTQ support in
OpenBSD by then.

-Kenjiro