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SubjectRe: PATCH : ppp + big-endian = kernel crash
FromAndi Kleen <>
DateMon, 30 May 2005 12:22:42 +0200
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
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