From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sunsite.dk>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Driver development document
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 23:10:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805429@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805372@msgid-missing>
>>>>> "Doug" = Doug Beattie <dbb@caldera.com> writes:
Doug> FWIW - It may be good, for someone in the real know, to document
Doug> how to modify or write a driver source so it would detect
Doug> whether it was running on ia32 or ia64 or even other type system
Doug> and thereby be able to take advantage of larger memory models.
Doug> From what I understand, many of the current drivers go through
Doug> copydown when used in the ia64 architecture and could be
Doug> improved upon.
There really isn't any need to do so, if you follow the documented
APIs this will work automatically.
Jes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-31 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-19 17:00 [Linux-ia64] Driver development document Gururaj Ananthateerta
2001-10-19 17:46 ` n0ano
2001-10-19 18:12 ` Doug Beattie
2001-10-19 18:39 ` KOCHI, Takayoshi
2001-10-31 23:10 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
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