Greg KH writes:
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> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 02:25:11PM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > On 07/18/2013 01:40 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 08:26:55AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > >> On 07/17/2013 05:49 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > >>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 04:18:01PM -0400, Lidza Louina wrote:
> > >>>> This patch adds the Digi driver to staging.
> > >>>
> > >>> Which digi driver? For what hardware? What type of driver is it?
> > >>> Please provide some more details here.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> From the readme:
> > >>
> > >> This Digi software package includes device drivers for the PCI models
> > >> of the Digi Neo and ClassicBoard series of products.
> > >> It is currently supported on the following hardware platforms:
> > >>
> > >> o Standard i386/i486 and Pentium PC (x86 32bit)
> > >> o x86 64bit
> > >
> > > I was "hinting" that this needed to be explained in the changelog entry.
> > > The part about the architectures is not needed, as, unless something
> > > really strange is going on in the driver, it should work on all cpus
> > > that support PCI, right?
> > >
> >
> > That I cannot attest to. The readme also says:
> >
> > o Standard i386/i486 and Pentium PC (x86 32bit)
> > o x86 64bit
> >
> > I can only personally vouch for Intel/Amd CPUs running in 32 bit mode.
>
> I'll look at the driver code, but odds are, unless you are assuming a
> specific endian format of some data, all should be fine on other cpu
> types.
>