[parisc-linux] Some PA-RISC 2.0 Gotchas

Philipp Rumpf prumpf@inwestnet.de
Fri, 11 Feb 2000 19:21:55 +0100


> But, in the free_area_struc type, the map variable is declared as an integer
> ptr. Depending on the size of
> the bitmap, this will cause the parisc_set_bit  to operate incorrectly. We
> solved this problem by making
> the map variable a unsigned long pointer.

it's very unlikely map isn't a multiple of 8 bytes, but I agree this type
should be changed.

> Hope these are of some use.

Thanks, I'm sure they will.

	Philipp