How to add x32 ABI support to PCI driver

[Omkar Houddin]

Hello Greg,

I working on a char device driver. It is mostly based on the the scull
device driver in the LDD book.
It controls a HBA sitting on the PCIe BUS.


Thanks,
OH



On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 09:55:15PM -0700, Omkar Houddin wrote:
> > Im trying to port the  PCI driver(supports only 32 bit) from 2.6.31 )o
> the
> > latest kernel version using openSuse.
> > Im doing it version by version. I was able to port it till 3.1 kernel
> version.
> > In the kernel 3.4 there is feature called X32 ABI support. I'm not
> knowing how
> > to add this.
>
> A PCI driver should not care about the processor or userspace ABI at
> all.  What type of driver are you working on?  What hardware does it
> control?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
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