From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4LGxXnC003717 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 09:59:33 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4LGxX5D003716 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 2002 09:59:33 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from nixon.xkey.com (nixon.xkey.com [209.245.148.124]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g4LGxUnC003708 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 09:59:30 -0700 Received: (qmail 19387 invoked from network); 21 May 2002 17:00:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO localhost.conservativecomputer.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 May 2002 17:00:23 -0000 Received: (from lindahl@localhost) by localhost.conservativecomputer.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) id g4LH0eA02119 for linux-mips@oss.sgi.com; Tue, 21 May 2002 10:00:40 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: lindahl set sender to lindahl@keyresearch.com using -f Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:00:40 -0700 From: Greg Lindahl To: Linux-MIPS Subject: Re: MIPS 64? Message-ID: <20020521100040.A2103@wumpus.internal.keyresearch.com> Mail-Followup-To: Linux-MIPS References: <20020519123059.E20670@dea.linux-mips.net> <20020520085743.A1748@wumpus.keyresearch.com> <20020521164730.GC11618@paradigm.rfc822.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020521164730.GC11618@paradigm.rfc822.org>; from flo@rfc822.org on Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:47:30PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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