diff --git a/drivers/net/r8169.c b/drivers/net/r8169.c
index 5ec7752..5095dbe 100644
--- a/drivers/net/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ VERSION 2.2LK	<2005/01/25>
 #include <asm/system.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/irq.h>
+#include <asm/unaligned.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_R8169_NAPI
 #define NAPI_SUFFIX	"-NAPI"
@@ -224,7 +225,9 @@ static struct pci_device_id rtl8169_pci_tbl[] = {
 
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, rtl8169_pci_tbl);
 
+#if !defined(__sparc__)
 static int rx_copybreak = 200;
+#endif
 static int use_dac;
 static struct {
 	u32 msg_enable;
@@ -465,8 +468,10 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Realtek and the Linux r8169 crew <netdev@vger.kernel.org>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver");
 module_param_array(media, int, &num_media, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(media, "force phy operation. Deprecated by ethtool (8).");
+#if !defined(__sparc__)
 module_param(rx_copybreak, int, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(rx_copybreak, "Copy breakpoint for copy-only-tiny-frames");
+#endif
 module_param(use_dac, int, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(use_dac, "Enable PCI DAC. Unsafe on 32 bit PCI slot.");
 module_param_named(debug, debug.msg_enable, int, 0);
@@ -2486,10 +2491,25 @@ static inline int rtl8169_try_rx_copy(struct sk_buff **sk_buff, int pkt_size,
 {
 	int ret = -1;
 
-	if (pkt_size < rx_copybreak) {
+#if defined(__sparc__)
+	if (pkt_size) {
 		struct sk_buff *skb;
+		int i;
+
+		skb = dev_alloc_skb(pkt_size + 4);
+
+		/* align the data to the ip header - should be faster than copying the entire packet to the stack */
+		for (i = pkt_size - (pkt_size % 4); i >= 0; i -= 4) {
+			put_unaligned(*((u32 *) (skb->data + i)), (u32 *) (skb->data + i + 2));
+		}
+		skb->data += 2;
+		skb->tail += 2;
+#else
+	if (pkt_size < rx_copybreak) {
+                struct sk_buff *skb;
 
 		skb = dev_alloc_skb(pkt_size + align);
+#endif
 		if (skb) {
 			skb_reserve(skb, (align - 1) & (unsigned long)skb->data);
 			eth_copy_and_sum(skb, sk_buff[0]->data, pkt_size, 0);