From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ia64 unaligned accesses in ntfs driver
Date: 17 Dec 2001 13:37:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9vloj6$8ff$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011216191325.K12063@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <20011216124328.E21566@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <20011216191325.K12063@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <5.1.0.14.2.20011217093040.0319a310@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Followup to: <5.1.0.14.2.20011217093040.0319a310@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk>
By author: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> They are at least one of the explanations why the driver would not work on
> non-intel arch... I gather most other arch don't cope with unaligned
> accesses. I am surprised those are the only ones you see actually...
>
A lot of arch's that don't do, however, support emulating it via a
trap handler.
-hpa
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-17 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-16 10:43 Allocating 1GB on a 2GB ia64 box trigger oom rambo Ville Herva
2001-12-16 17:13 ` malloc 1GB on a 2GB ia64 box fails - 17rc1 woes w/ qla1280 and reiserfs Ville Herva
2001-12-17 7:02 ` .17-rc1 - oom killer still sneaks in Ville Herva
2001-12-17 7:05 ` Ia64 unaligned accesses in ntfs driver Ville Herva
2001-12-17 9:47 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-12-17 10:31 ` Ville Herva
2001-12-17 21:37 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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