Followup to: <5.1.0.14.2.20011217093040.0319a310@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk>
By author: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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.
-hpa
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