Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Sep 2002 22:58:47 +0200 | From | Richard Zidlicky <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix ide-iops for big endian archs |
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On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:14:14PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 13:32, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >> I enclosed the patch as an attachement too in case the mailer screws > >> it up... > > > >Please do one thing. For the stuff that needs weird powerpcisms put all > >the seperate stuff in one block with its own copy of the static inlines > >so we dont have in ifdef in half the functions in the file > > This is _NOT_ a weird PowerPC'ism !!! > > It's just a matter of use the proper operation, that is "insw/outsw" > instead of trying to re-implement it with a loop of basic inw/outw, > which is wrong for _any_ BE arch (except maybe weird m68k'ism where > IDE is wired the wrong way around)
to put it a bit more precise, this is bus endianness, nothing to do with arch endianness.
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