Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:20:03 +0900 | From | Yasushi SHOJI <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix IO access in rivafb |
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Hi Linus,
At Mon, 8 Nov 2004 07:21:53 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > > > How about this patch? This is almost the original macro in riva_hw.h, > > with the __force annotation. > > Why not just use __raw_readl/__raw_writel? > > That's what they exist for, and they still do any IO accesses correctly, > which a direct store does not do (it would seriously break on older > alphas, for example).
sorry for a dumb question but should readl/writel on big endian system swap like ppc does?
hmm... checking source code, it seems like most arch indeed does that, except m68knommu, h8300 and microblaze. is it nommu thing? -- yashi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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