From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA17281 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 09:18:07 -0700 Received: from hub-fue by rachael.franken.de via rmail with uucp id for thepuffingroup.com!parisc-linux; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 16:13:51 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built DST-Sep-8) Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 15:37:59 +0100 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: Michael Ang Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] State Of The Port Message-ID: <20000205153759.A538@alpha.franken.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Michael Ang on Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:17:33PM -0500 List-ID: On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:17:33PM -0500, Michael Ang wrote: > Thomas Bogendorf look it up in the From: line:-) > Expects to have it working by this weekend. Lack of endianess > support is the main problem. 2.2.14 is the "latest" tulip.c > but has no big endian support. the 2.2.14 tulip.c driver has big endian support as well as Donald's latest alpha version. > Willy mentioned that we will have to think about running on 64bit at some > point. IMHO, it's way too early to even think about it. Of course 64bit is sexy, but without a working 32bit userland it's a too big can of worms to open right now. Linux/MIPS64 hasn't started before a reasonable distribution existed, and I'm sure this wasn't a bad descision then. Thomas. -- This device has completely bogus header. Compaq scores again :-| It's a host bridge, but it should be called ghost bridge instead ;^) [Martin `MJ' Mares on linux-kernel]