Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:54:20 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types
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> > > Why does it break them? It should just make them a little slower.
> > Not all CPUs deliver recoverable misalignment exceptions.   
> These CPUs are too broken to run Linux then.

People fixed that up
> 
> > > The network code requires unaligned accesses to work anyways so if your
> > > architecture doesn't support them it is already remotely crashable.
> >
> > I thought we'd fixed all that.
> 
> Did you audit the complete network stack?

For the parts used by the processors in question yes people have done
that work so using the types without unaligned.

Alan
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