Re: sparc: fix a few sparse warnings

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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 21:33:30 +0100

> The best solution would be to move the interrupt
> handler to floppy_32.h (as we do with sparc64) so
> we keep the dependencies local.
> And if we do this maybe we should just rewrite it to C
> anyway. But that requires some sparc assembler knowledge,
> and the real gain is minimal so I dropped it.

Unfortunately it's in assembler on sparc32 for a reason.

You'll drop data bytes and overflow the floppy controller FIFO on very
old sparc32 systems, particular sun4c ones, if we try to do this in C
code.
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