Re: M700 partition problem

[Systemkennung Linux <linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de>]

Hi all,

> You need to do the same as alphas do. Mipses can't load unaligned without
> using special instructions or load a byte at  a time and merge them.
> 
> I ran into this when porting XFree86 to my 4000 running NetBSD.

The IDE/partition table stuff in the Linux kernel is full of these alignment
problems.  I've already fixed several of these bugs.  It's just been luck
that I didn't run into this particular problem.  Anyway, I now have Wayne's
M700 sitting on my table and will fix this thing.

   Ralf