From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 23:10:42 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Driver development document Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Doug" = Doug Beattie 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