Re: status of DRM_MGA on x86_64

Ian Romanick
2004-10-29T19:57:52Z

Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I have now changed Kconfig and successfully compiled, loaded and used
> DRI with a Matrox Millenium G550 on a dual Opteron system. I guess this
> is a pretty good test and I wonder if the problem has already been fixed
> or if it was limited to specific hard- or software.

The problem, which exists with most (all?) DRM drivers, is that data
types are used in the kernel/user interface that have different sizes on
LP32 and LP64. If your kernel is 64-bit, you will have problems with
32-bit applications.