Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932486AbXAGLJ7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 06:09:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932497AbXAGLJ7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 06:09:59 -0500 Received: from sd291.sivit.org ([194.146.225.122]:1668 "EHLO sd291.sivit.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932486AbXAGLJ6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 06:09:58 -0500 Subject: Re: sonypi not for 64bit? From: Stelian Pop To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Mattia Dongili In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 12:09:55 +0100 Message-Id: <1168168195.30005.3.camel@voyager.dsnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 892 Lines: 24 Le dimanche 07 janvier 2007 ? 03:21 +0100, Jan Engelhardt a ?crit : > Hi sonypi (ex-)maintainers ;-) > > > drivers/char/Kconfig lists SONYPI as being !64BIT, however, there seem > to be sony users with x86_64 [1] around. Indeed, I have had (private) reports about it working on x86_64 too. > Is it just caution (it's also > marked EXPERIMENTAL) or is it definitely known to break on 64bit? Frankly I don't recall anymore. The 64 bit restriction wasn't there from the beginning, it was added by a patch from someone 2 or 3 years ago. git doesn't seem to have the history for that, maybe old bk does... -- Stelian Pop - 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/