> A cross compile toolchain is the only real soluion. Otherwise we would > soon end up with far to many drivers selectable for x84-64. if the *driver* is not platform specific, what is the problem with that? Aunt Tilly again? The only difference between x86 and x86-64 is isa-bus cards and things that were put on a motherboard but never on a PCI card. That's maybe a dozen or two total for the entire kernel, and a set that is not growing. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html