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DateWed, 24 Sep 2008 09:53:38 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] olpc: fix endian bug in openfirmware workaround
* Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:

> Boardrev is always treated as a u32 everywhere else, no reason to 
> byteswap the 0xc2 value.  The only use is to print out if it is a 
> prerelease board, the test being:
> 
> (olpc_platform_info.boardrev & 0xf) < 8
> 
> Which is currently always true as be32_to_cpu(0xc2) & 0xf = 0
> but I doubt that was the intention here.  The consequences of the bug
> are pretty minor though (incorrect boardrev displayed in dmesg when
> ofw support not configured)
> 
> Also annotate the temporary used to read the boardrev in the ofw
> case.
> 
> The confusion was noticed by sparse:
> arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c:206:32: warning: cast to restricted __be32
> 
> Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>

applied to tip/x86/sparse-fixes, thanks Harvey!

	Ingo


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