[parisc-linux] documented Oops running big-endian reiserfs on parisc architecture

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 04:04:41PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
>    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 15:00:23 +0100
> 
>    On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:55:38AM +0200, thunder7@xs4all.nl wrote:
>    > ReiserFS version 3.6.25
>    > bonnie[163]: Unaligned data reference 28
>    
>    As it says, an unaligned data reference.
>    
> BTW, you should not be OOPSing on this as unaligned references are
> defined as completely normal, especially in the networking.
> 
> Is it impossible to handle unaligned access traps properly on
> parisc?  If so, well you have some problems...

No, we just haven't bothered to implement it yet.  Not many people
use IPX these days.

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