Re: [ACPI] Re: [PATCH/RFC] exposing ACPI objects in sysfs

Andi Kleen
2004-09-21T19:18:29Z

> All pointers are actually interpreted as offsets into the buffer for
> this interface. They are not actually pointers. I believe the 32bit
> emulation problem is limited to an ILP32 application generating data
> structures appropriate for an LP64 kernel. While difficult, it can be
> done.

If this involves patching the application - no it cannot be done.
The 64bit kernel is supposed to run vanilla 32bit user land.

Please find some other solution for this. An ioctl doesn't sound that bad.

-Andi