Re: [git patch] DRM 32/64 ioctl patch..

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Jun 26 2005 - 13:42:30 EST


On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 01:22:56PM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> Hi Linus,
> Please pull the 'drm-3264' branch of
> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git
>
> This contains the initial patch from Paul Mackerras, for supporting
> radeons on 32/64 systems, I'll try and submit patches for other chips
> later as people get them working.
>
> The patch is at
> http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied/patches/lk_drm/drm_3264_git.diff
> for anyone else interested.

I talked to Egbert Eich at Linuxtag and he said he had different compat
ioctl patch for drm, which actually supports running a 64bit server
and 32bit clients.

The big question is here, does this patch help to reach this goal or does
it make that more awkward?

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