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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

  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-30 14:05 Greg Ungerer

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