On Mon, 20 May 2002, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> > Well, the surprise is going to happen in drivers, I'm afraid...
>
> Linux drivers as a whole are 64-bit clean; alpha's been around for a
> long time. MIPS-only devices might be dirtier.
Well, that is wishful thinking. Obviously if a driver is actually used
on a 64-bit system, one can be moderately confident the driver is clean,
although there might still be corner cases. Otherwise expect all kinds of
weirdness. See e.g. the ISA stuff.
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