Device driver chip architcture dependencies

[Benjamin Tseng <tseng.ben@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
Apologies if this is an incredibly newbie question as I have never
programmed at the kernel/device driver level (and am new to this mailing
list), but I'm very interested in the new flavors of netbooks which are
coming out which will be powered by new ARM chips (e.g. snapdragon, sparrow,
etc), and wanted to ask the experts if the device drivers that I currently
have working on my x86-Linux notebook work with the new ARM-Linux netbooks?

For my curiosity's sake, I'm also wondering if getting drivers to work
across multiple architectures requires significant re-compiling/re-coding
work -- e.g. will HP/Linux community decide its not worth the hassle of
re-coding drivers to work on ARM-Linux?

Thanks!
--Ben
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