From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: phdm@macqel.be, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-dev@uclinux.org
Subject: Re: PATCH : ppp + big-endian = kernel crash
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 12:22:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14qclxbbh.fsf@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050529195245.33f36253.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Sun, 29 May 2005 19:52:45 -0700")
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
>>
>> So many variants of tunneling and protocol encapsulation can result in
>> unaligned packet headers, and as a result platforms really must
>> provide proper unaligned memory access handling in kernel mode in
>> order to use the networking fully.
>
> As Philippe mentioned, old 68k's simply cannot do this.
An 68000 cannot, but 68010+ can. Are there really that many 68000 users
left?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-30 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-29 19:48 PATCH : ppp + big-endian = kernel crash Philippe De Muyter
2005-05-29 20:52 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-29 21:38 ` Philippe De Muyter
2005-05-29 21:55 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-30 2:52 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-30 3:11 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-01 15:26 ` Philippe De Muyter
2005-05-30 10:22 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-05-30 13:01 ` cutaway
2005-05-30 7:16 ` Giuliano Pochini
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2005-05-30 14:05 Greg Ungerer
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