From: Greg Lindahl <lindahl@keyresearch.com>
To: Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: MIPS 64?
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:00:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020521100040.A2103@wumpus.internal.keyresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020521164730.GC11618@paradigm.rfc822.org>; from flo@rfc822.org on Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:47:30PM +0200
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:47:30PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:57:44AM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:06:45PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> >
> > > Well, the surprise is going to happen in drivers, I'm afraid...
> >
> > Linux drivers as a whole are 64-bit clean; alpha's been around for a
> > long time. MIPS-only devices might be dirtier.
>
> Not really true - I just stumbled over the cyclades multiport driver
> which says to work on alpha for a long time - But it doesnt on
> Sparc64 due to the porters misunderstanding on typedefs for the
> driver internals. (Alpha and i386 are happy with char irqs e.g.).
I must say I find this entire discussion bewildering: one example does
not mean that Linux drivers are not "as a whole" 64-bit clean.
Another poster thought that things like ISA and Turbochannel devices
were a counter-example. Well, no.
greg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-21 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-15 21:34 MIPS 64? Matthew Dharm
2002-05-15 21:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-15 21:55 ` Kip Walker
2002-05-15 22:08 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-15 22:08 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-15 22:15 ` Kip Walker
2002-05-15 22:26 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-15 22:29 ` Kip Walker
2002-05-19 19:29 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-19 19:25 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-15 21:59 ` Jun Sun
2002-05-15 22:16 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-19 19:32 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-16 3:28 ` Dan Malek
2002-05-16 7:15 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-05-16 17:13 ` Jun Sun
2002-05-19 19:44 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-19 19:41 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-19 19:30 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-20 10:06 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-05-20 15:57 ` Greg Lindahl
2002-05-20 16:05 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-05-21 16:47 ` Florian Lohoff
2002-05-21 17:00 ` Greg Lindahl [this message]
2002-05-20 19:05 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-19 19:24 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-19 19:23 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-20 6:05 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-20 20:30 ` Ralf Baechle
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