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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Ia64 unaligned accesses in ntfs driver
Date: 17 Dec 2001 13:37:42 -0800
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Followup to:  <5.1.0.14.2.20011217093040.0319a310@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk>
By author:    Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
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> 
> They are at least one of the explanations why the driver would not work on 
> non-intel arch... I gather most other arch don't cope with unaligned 
> accesses. I am surprised those are the only ones you see actually...
> 

A lot of arch's that don't do, however, support emulating it via a
trap handler.

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