On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Thursday 2009-11-05 11:36, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote: > >> > The lack of cheap access to big-endian, alignment-sensitive hardware > >> > means many codes do not get the testing they deserve :-/ > >> > >> Yes, that's exaxtly. Funnily enough a few years ago I toyed the idea to > >> buy a thrown out SPARCCenter2000 but I didn't have enough power in my > >> place to boot up such a machine... > > > >In a few days I'll be able to use an Ultra 10 for testing - that'll settle > >the validating on big endian hardware. > > Does not Dave have some 64-bit sparks in the basement that may > be shared and given remote access to? > (It seems Netfilter is one of the subsystems most plagued by endianess, > aligning and sizeof(long) variances ;-) Dave don't need to dig into his SPARC collection :-) - I'll setup this machine as a testbed for netfilter/ipset. Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
