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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	acpi-devel <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: [PATCH/RFC] exposing ACPI objects in sysfs
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:18:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040921191826.GF18938@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095794035.24751.54.camel@tdi>

>    All pointers are actually interpreted as offsets into the buffer for
> this interface.  They are not actually pointers.  I believe the 32bit
> emulation problem is limited to an ILP32 application generating data
> structures appropriate for an LP64 kernel.  While difficult, it can be
> done.

If this involves patching the application - no it cannot be done.
The 64bit kernel is supposed to run vanilla 32bit user land.

Please find some other solution for this. An ioctl doesn't sound that bad.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-21 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-20 21:41 [PATCH/RFC] exposing ACPI objects in sysfs Alex Williamson
2004-09-21 12:24 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-21 14:18   ` Alex Williamson
2004-09-21 16:48   ` Alex Williamson
2004-09-21 17:26     ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-21 18:00       ` Alex Williamson
2004-09-21 19:31         ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-21 19:06       ` [ACPI] " Andi Kleen
2004-09-21 19:13         ` Alex Williamson
2004-09-21 19:18           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-09-21 19:45             ` Alex Williamson
2004-09-21 19:58               ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-21 20:40                 ` Alex Williamson
2004-09-21 21:02                   ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]                     ` <20040921210218.GJ30425-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-15 22:39                       ` Alex Williamson
2004-10-26 20:55                         ` [RFC] dev_acpi: support for userspace access to acpi Alex Williamson
2004-09-21 19:21           ` [ACPI] Re: [PATCH/RFC] exposing ACPI objects in sysfs Arjan van de Ven

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