From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pippin.tausq.org (gandalf.tausq.org [64.81.244.94]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 174D0482A for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:51:11 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:51:47 -0700 From: Randolph Chung To: John David Anglin Cc: carlos@baldric.uwo.ca, jeremyd@apptechsys.com, frts@simba.sch.bme.hu, grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] SMP kernel problems on a D350 Message-ID: <20020920215147.GG4909@tausq.org> Reply-To: Randolph Chung References: <20020920205012.GF4909@tausq.org> <200209202056.g8KKu0XM019968@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200209202056.g8KKu0XM019968@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: > Is there any software that actually needs the unaligned handler? > I think it would be useful for test purposes to have a kernel with > it off. off the top of my head.... in the kernel, the usb driver has some unaligned accesses. in userspace, several of the network utilities (tcpdump, nmap, etc) make unaligned accesses randolph -- Randolph Chung Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports http://www.tausq.org/