Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Aug 1998 18:34:08 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: program 64 bit ready |
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On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 11:54:37PM +0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Check out UltraPenguin or Linux/Alpha. These two Linux > versions are running on 64 bit hardware and have full > 64 bit support.
Actually, now that you mention it, it seems there are quite a few places in the kernel where data structures are not aligned correctly on drivers want to do stuff like insw on unaligned memory. Other drivers do things like printk("blah %x\n",&blem) in several places.
Most of the time its not an issue, because you generally don't use such drivers on the alpha.... I'm probably the only one who's ever used a aha152x on the alpha as best as I know.
Anyhow, I guess now that things are in freeze, its probably a good time to make a kernel with all options YES and all architectures and see if we can make sure we get no significant warnings.
-cw
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