Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Ia64 unaligned accesses in ntfs driver | Date | 17 Dec 2001 13:37:42 -0800 |
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Followup to: <5.1.0.14.2.20011217093040.0319a310@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> By author: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > They are at least one of the explanations why the driver would not work on > non-intel arch... I gather most other arch don't cope with unaligned > accesses. I am surprised those are the only ones you see actually... >
A lot of arch's that don't do, however, support emulating it via a trap handler.
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