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Re: Are there any issues with Sparcstations

To: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Are there any issues with Sparcstations
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 07 Sep 2001 05:35:08 -0400
Cc: James <jdickens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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>>>>> "Andi" == Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> writes:
>> I haven't tried XFS on SPARC in a long time, so I don't know for
>> sure.  With a SPARCstation 5 you should be fine, though.

Andi> At least _pagebuf_free_lockable_buffer is clearly not sparc32
Andi> safe, because it gets save_flags flags arguments passed as an
Andi> argument and will mess up the register window.  So I doubt it'll
Andi> work.

Oh, right.  I remember talking to DaveM about that.

I've never actually tried XFS on sparc32...

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