From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kkeil@suse.de,
kai.germaschewski@gmx.de, isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de,
mac@melware.de, samuel@sortiz.org, Neela.Kolli@engenio.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
thomas@winischhofer.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce BROKEN_ON_64BIT facility
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:19:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45211FF6.7090303@shadowconnect.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4520E1CB.6070104@garzik.org>
Hello,
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> writes:
>>> Add a broken-on-64bit option, similar to the existing broken-on-smp
>>> config option. This is just the first pass, marking the obvious
>>> candidates.
>> When I had this problem in the past I just used && !64BIT.
>> How is this new option different?
> Same reason why we have CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP separate from CONFIG_SMP.
>> AFAIK I2O got fixed too. Do you have any evidence that it is really
>> broken on 64bit?
> i2o_config did not. Just read the code, it's obvious...
Although the documentation does say it need fixes, it really doesn't. It
is broken if used with 64-bit DMA addresses, but it does work on 64-bit
systems.
Best regards,
Markus Lidel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-02 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-02 4:55 [PATCH] Introduce BROKEN_ON_64BIT facility Jeff Garzik
2006-10-02 9:51 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-02 9:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-02 14:19 ` Markus Lidel [this message]
2006-10-02 13:03 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-02 13:52 ` chas williams - CONTRACTOR
2006-10-02 15:12 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-02 15:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-02 16:21 ` Alan Cox
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