On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 12:22:31 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven [off-list ref] wrote:

I gave it a try:
  - Remove existing alignment attributes from some device_id types
  - Introduce kernel_* types with proper size and alignment for
    cross-compilation (sample <asm/kerneltypes.h> for m68k included)
  - Introduce BITS_PER_KERNEL_LONG, to make it clearer it applies to the target

Apart from a cross-compile session for m68k, it's untested.

This still requires a bit of maintenance to set up a kerneltypes.h for every arch. It also means we have to be very careful that gcc's internal alignment settings matched the ones in our header.

Rgds
Pierre