Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:53:15 -0400 | From | "Scott D. Davilla" <> | Subject | Re: CrystalHD driver safe on big endian systems? |
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>has the CrystalHD driver/library been tested on big endian systems? > >The (staging GIT tree) driver sources seem to use bitfields in C, is >this safe under different endianess? > >I'm currently testing two BCM70012 modules on a big-endian PowerPC >system and it fails changing the clock PLL to 175 MHz. This could be a >pair of defective modules, or the wrong bits being modified. >Unfortunately, I do not have a little endian system with mini-PCIe >available to do a A-B check.
Not sure if anyone has done work testing under big endian platforms. From what I've seen in code, it looks definite little endian based and would need a look over regarding byte swap.
Scott
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