From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:18:07 +0000 Subject: Re: megaraid warnings Message-Id: <16434.30463.969436.102136@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <16434.28509.327706.76307@napali.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <16434.28509.327706.76307@napali.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:09:18 +0000, Matthew Wilcox said: Matthew> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:08:22PM -0800, David Mosberger Matthew> wrote: >> >>>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:58:47 +0000, Matthew Wilcox >> said: Matthew> This keeps coming up on linux-scsi; basically these are Matthew> ioctls that are called by some binary-only (and Matthew> x86-binary-only at that) management program. so if they Matthew> want to ship an ia64 version of their management program, Matthew> they'll have to fix this; otherwise the addresses are Matthew> guaranteed to be in the lower 32 bits of the address space. >> Then why not disable the offending code for 64-bit platforms for >> the time being? Matthew> Because it works when the x86 app is run in emulation. Ah, your mail wasn't clear on this. In that case, I'd suggest to fix the code as I suggested in the earlier mail. --david