Re: PATCH : ppp + big-endian = kernel crash

[Greg Ungerer]

Andi Kleen <ak () muc ! de> writes:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> 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? 

Probably not of the 68000 as such, but the "new" generation of
68000 parts, Motorola/Freescales ColdFire family. There is quite
a few of them, used in all sorts of embedded applications.
And they are still churning out new varients of it. The majority
of them are MMUless - but not all.

Regards
Greg

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