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From: Frank Rowand <frank_rowand@hp.com>
To: Alex deVries <adevries@thepuffingroup.com>
Cc: frowand@cup.hp.com, Ryan Bradetich <rbradetich@uswest.net>,
	parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] arch/parisc/kernel/realmode_setup.c Question
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:42:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38309A65.9CB3DFC4@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.10.9911151948070.10661-100000@vodka.thepuffingroup.com

Alex deVries wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Frank Rowand wrote:
> > You don't get to choose.  The PDC is either 32 bit or 64 bit.  It's not
> > a question of what mode the OS is running in, but what the PDC was
> > compiled for.
> 
> Hm.  I'm pretty sure that a 32 bit version of HPUX has run on that box as
> well, so wouldn't that mean that it'd have to be a 32 bit PDC?
> 
> - Alex

Nope.  The OS has to figure out what type of PDC it is calling, and properly
marshall the arguments for the call.

-Frank

  reply	other threads:[~1999-11-15 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-14 22:49 [parisc-linux] arch/parisc/kernel/realmode_setup.c Question Ryan Bradetich
1999-11-15  0:59 ` Alex deVries
1999-11-15  1:01   ` Ryan Bradetich
1999-11-15  4:42     ` Alex deVries
1999-11-15  7:20     ` Philipp Rumpf
1999-11-15 13:28       ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-11-15 14:15       ` Ryan Bradetich
1999-11-15 23:02 ` Frank Rowand
1999-11-16  0:31   ` Alex deVries
1999-11-15 23:34     ` Frank Rowand
1999-11-16  0:48       ` Alex deVries
1999-11-15 23:42         ` Frank Rowand [this message]
1999-11-16 14:02           ` Ryan Bradetich
1999-11-16 21:32             ` Frank Rowand
1999-11-15 23:11 ` [parisc-linux] use of (*PAGE0->mem_pdc)() Frank Rowand
1999-11-17  4:49   ` Philipp Rumpf
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-11-15 18:33 [parisc-linux] arch/parisc/kernel/realmode_setup.c Question bame

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