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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:48:40 +0000
Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] platform detection at run-time
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>>>>> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:33:12 -0400, Sane_Purushottam@emc.com said:

  Sane> The reason, I have to detect the architecture at run time has
  Sane> to do with the interface with (sg) driver. Since the driver is
  Sane> natively compiled for 64-bit, it expects the data structure
  Sane> handed over to it, to be 64-bit wide.  Thus my 32-bit
  Sane> application cannot issue ioctl calls successfully.

That sounds like a bug in the ia32 subsystem.

There should be no need to do anything special in user level.

	--david