On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:47:30PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:57:44AM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:06:45PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > > > Well, the surprise is going to happen in drivers, I'm afraid... > > > > Linux drivers as a whole are 64-bit clean; alpha's been around for a > > long time. MIPS-only devices might be dirtier. > > Not really true - I just stumbled over the cyclades multiport driver > which says to work on alpha for a long time - But it doesnt on > Sparc64 due to the porters misunderstanding on typedefs for the > driver internals. (Alpha and i386 are happy with char irqs e.g.). I must say I find this entire discussion bewildering: one example does not mean that Linux drivers are not "as a whole" 64-bit clean. Another poster thought that things like ISA and Turbochannel devices were a counter-example. Well, no. greg
