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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:47:05 -0700
From: Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: status of DRM_MGA on x86_64
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Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I have now changed Kconfig and successfully compiled, loaded and used
> DRI with a Matrox Millenium G550 on a dual Opteron system. I guess this
> is a pretty good test and I wonder if the problem has already been fixed
> or if it was limited to specific hard- or software.

The problem, which exists with most (all?) DRM drivers, is that data 
types are used in the kernel/user interface that have different sizes on 
LP32 and LP64.  If your kernel is 64-bit, you will have problems with 
32-bit applications.
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