Re: [PATCH 2 of 2] __raw_memcpy_toio32 for x86_64

[Andi Kleen]

On Thursday 12 January 2006 02:32, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Andi> Well then they can just as well use normal memcpy as long as
>     Andi> they don't pass any sizes % 4 != 0. That should be ok as
>     Andi> long as they add a comment there.
> 
> But then the driver will be doing memcpy() to I/O memory, which may
> work by chance on x86_64 but will blow up on other archs.

I meant aliasing it to memcpy on x86-64

But with the nasty qword splitup assumptions it would be wrong anyways,
so scratch that.

-Andi
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