Hi James,
Added dependency in Kconfig for x86 to avoid its inclusion on other
architectures. Will it be help, if it is changed to x86_64?.
Thanks
simha
On 15/05/15 10:04 pm, "James Bottomley"
<James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 16:08 +0000, Narsimhulu Musini (nmusini) wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> >>This doesn't build on 32 bits. Is it supposed to be 64 bit only?
>> Yes please, x86_64 arch only.
>
>For the kernel, we don't usually accept architectural restrictions.
>You're perfectly entitled to support only the architectures you wish
>(and put a warning in the driver if you want) but we do need the code to
>be endian and bitwidth clean because we find it helps with maintenance
>and checking (the ppc build systems pick up quite a few snafus that the
>x86 ones don't).
>
>James
>
>
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