Re: sonypi not for 64bit?

[Stelian Pop]

Le dimanche 07 janvier 2007 à 03:21 +0100, Jan Engelhardt a écrit :
> Hi sonypi (ex-)maintainers ;-)
> 
> 
> drivers/char/Kconfig lists SONYPI as being !64BIT, however, there seem 
> to be sony users with x86_64 [1] around.

Indeed, I have had (private) reports about it working on x86_64 too.

>  Is it just caution (it's also 
> marked EXPERIMENTAL) or is it definitely known to break on 64bit?

Frankly I don't recall anymore. The 64 bit restriction wasn't there from
the beginning, it was added by a patch from someone 2 or 3 years ago.
git doesn't seem to have the history for that, maybe old bk does...

-- 
Stelian Pop <stelian@xxxxxxxxxx>

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