From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH : ppp + big-endian = kernel crash
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 00:05:51 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <429B1DBF.1060205@snapgear.com> (raw)
Andi Kleen <ak () muc ! de> writes:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
>>>
>>> So many variants of tunneling and protocol encapsulation can result in
>>> unaligned packet headers, and as a result platforms really must
>>> provide proper unaligned memory access handling in kernel mode in
>>> order to use the networking fully.
>>
>> As Philippe mentioned, old 68k's simply cannot do this.
>
> An 68000 cannot, but 68010+ can. Are there really that many 68000 users
> left?
Probably not of the 68000 as such, but the "new" generation of
68000 parts, Motorola/Freescales ColdFire family. There is quite
a few of them, used in all sorts of embedded applications.
And they are still churning out new varients of it. The majority
of them are MMUless - but not all.
Regards
Greg
next reply other threads:[~2005-05-30 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-30 14:05 Greg Ungerer [this message]
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2005-05-29 19:48 PATCH : ppp + big-endian = kernel crash Philippe De Muyter
2005-05-29 20:52 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-29 21:38 ` Philippe De Muyter
2005-05-29 21:55 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-30 2:52 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-30 3:11 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-01 15:26 ` Philippe De Muyter
2005-05-30 10:22 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-30 13:01 ` cutaway
2005-05-30 7:16 ` Giuliano Pochini
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