Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:42:09 +0100 | From | Markus Lidel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] I2O: SPARC fixes |
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Hi...
David S. Miller wrote: > From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> > Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 03:30:39 +0000 >>On Gwe, 2005-11-18 at 17:22 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: >>>Ho hum, I guess keep it a config option for now until we find a >>>way to auto-detect this reliably. >>The notify functionality is mandatory. You are seeing the same cards >>fail on sparc but work on x86. This sounds to me a lot more like an >>unfound endian bug that needs fixing than a real lack of support > That's very possible, but it also could be that the cards > that fail only on Sparc have Sun forth firmware on them, > which would thus only load firmware on Sparc boxes. > I still think the endianness theory is more likely, however. > Perhaps the I2O datastructures should be endian annotated > and then pushed through sparse. :-)
Sounds good to me. Could i then find out if some BE<=>LE issues are still left? If so, is there a document which describes how it is done, or at least has a driver added it already?
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