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

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon May 30 2005 - 05:24:01 EST


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?

-Andi
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