| To: | Greg Lindahl <lindahl@keyresearch.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: MIPS 64? |
| From: | Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> |
| Date: | Tue, 21 May 2002 18:47:30 +0200 |
| Cc: | Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com> |
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On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:57:44AM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:06:45PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki 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.
Not really true - I just stumbled over the cyclades multiport driver
which says to work on alpha for a long time - But it doesnt on
Sparc64 due to the porters misunderstanding on typedefs for the
driver internals. (Alpha and i386 are happy with char irqs e.g.).
Flo
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Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912
Heisenberg may have been here.
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