Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261228AbVE3KWp (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 06:22:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261301AbVE3KWp (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 06:22:45 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:45714 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261228AbVE3KWo (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 06:22:44 -0400 To: Andrew Morton Cc: phdm@macqel.be, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-dev@uclinux.org Subject: Re: PATCH : ppp + big-endian = kernel crash References: <20050529.135257.98862077.davem@davemloft.net> <200505292138.j4TLcrJ28536@mail.macqel.be> <20050529.145509.82051753.davem@davemloft.net> <20050529195245.33f36253.akpm@osdl.org> From: Andi Kleen Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 12:22:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20050529195245.33f36253.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Sun, 29 May 2005 19:52:45 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 681 Lines: 18 Andrew Morton writes: >> >> So many variants of tunneling and protocol encapsulation can result in >> unaligned packet headers, and as a result platforms really must >> provide proper unaligned memory access handling in kernel mode in >> order to use the networking fully. > > As Philippe mentioned, old 68k's simply cannot do this. An 68000 cannot, but 68010+ can. Are there really that many 68000 users left? -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/