From: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Subject: Re: sonypi not for 64bit?
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 12:09:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1168168195.30005.3.camel@voyager.dsnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0701070313510.23016@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
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@popies.net>
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