On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Michael Buesch wrote: > > If we are talking about what's sane or not... > It's trivial to fix this in the firmware, like sane vendors like > Broadcom do. You just showed your total disregard for any sanity by calling broadcom "sane". Quite frankly, Broadcom is probably the single worst chip manufacturer in terms of both bugginess of the silicon itself and in terms of lack of support. > Architectures that can't do unaligned access are heavily used in > wireless embedded routers. So we are not going to pay a huge > price there so just one vendor doesn't have to fix his firmware. .. and you also showed that you didn't even read my email and the options I outlined. The fact is, the Intel wireless chipset only works with x86 CPU's. There is absolutely zero "price" on crap CPU's, because they are simply not relevant to this driver. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html