Messages in this thread | | | From | "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix ide-iops for big endian archs | Date | Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:14:14 +0200 |
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>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)
Ben.
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