Adaptec/DPT I2O Option Omitted From Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Configuration Tool
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Quoted 3 lines · Leon Toh
I totally agree with you. However at the time when this driver was written it was only intended for Intel i386 base architecture. And furthermore AMD64 wasn't even available at that stage.
But other 64bit architectures were like IA64. It was very short sightened, especially since it doesn't require much effort to write 64bit clean code from the beginning.
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At this point of time I think fixing this driver for 32bit architecture now is far more important than addressing 64bit architecture, don't you agree Andi ?
Unclear. The number of 2.4/AMD64 users tripping over this might be not much smaller than the number of early 2.6 adopter 32bit users.
-Andi
Quoted 8 lines · Andi Kleen
Quoted 3 lines · Leon Toh
At this point of time I think fixing this driver for 32bit architecture now is far more important than addressing 64bit architecture, don't you agree Andi ?
Unclear. The number of 2.4/AMD64 users tripping over this might be not much smaller than the number of early 2.6 adopter 32bit users.
Ok. So far I have not had anyone requesting for 64 bit Linux OS HBA support. However I'm getting more request for 2.6 32 bit support as they are starting development with it. Might be different in your part of world.
I'm not a programmer myself so I'm not sure how involved it would be to tidy the driver up. If it's only a couple of additional lines than it can be address at the same time. But if that's not the case than I think Adaptec should tidy up the 32 bit support before working on 64 bit support. Last I want to see is a complete buggy driver release due to a complete rewrite of the driver for 32 and 64 bit support.
- Leon