Greg KH writes: > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 02:25:11PM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote: > > On 07/18/2013 01:40 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 08:26:55AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote: > > >> On 07/17/2013 05:49 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > >>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 04:18:01PM -0400, Lidza Louina wrote: > > >>>> This patch adds the Digi driver to staging. > > >>> > > >>> Which digi driver? For what hardware? What type of driver is it? > > >>> Please provide some more details here. > > >>> > > >> > > >> From the readme: > > >> > > >> This Digi software package includes device drivers for the PCI models > > >> of the Digi Neo and ClassicBoard series of products. > > >> It is currently supported on the following hardware platforms: > > >> > > >> o Standard i386/i486 and Pentium PC (x86 32bit) > > >> o x86 64bit > > > > > > I was "hinting" that this needed to be explained in the changelog entry. > > > The part about the architectures is not needed, as, unless something > > > really strange is going on in the driver, it should work on all cpus > > > that support PCI, right? > > > > > > > That I cannot attest to. The readme also says: > > > > o Standard i386/i486 and Pentium PC (x86 32bit) > > o x86 64bit > > > > I can only personally vouch for Intel/Amd CPUs running in 32 bit mode. > > I'll look at the driver code, but odds are, unless you are assuming a > specific endian format of some data, all should be fine on other cpu > types. > If it's anything like dgrp, it will have some places that it assumes a specific endian format. -- Bill _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
