On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Thursday 2009-11-05 12:21, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote: > >> >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. > > But since the Ultra10 is just 32-bit IIRC, you would not have a > chance to hit the rare 64-bit alignment problems (both in terms of > SIGBUS and "invalid match size 16 != 12"), should there be any. SUN Ultra 10 has got a 300, 333, 360, or 440-MHz UltraSPARC[tm]-IIi processor. So it's definitely a bigendian machine. 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
