lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2005]   [Apr]   [4]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: iomapping a big endian area
James Bottomley wrote:
> so can you provide an example of a BE bus (or device) used on a LE
> platform that would actually benefit from this abstraction?

The Network Processing Engines in the Intel IXP425 are big-endian and
its XScale core may be run in little-endian mode. There's a bunch of
gotchas related to running in little-endian mode so you typically run
the IXP425 in big-endian mode, though.

David Vrabel
--
David Vrabel, Design Engineer

Arcom, Clifton Road Tel: +44 (0)1223 411200 ext. 3233
Cambridge CB1 7EA, UK Web: http://www.arcom.com/
-
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/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-04-06 13:31    [W:1.001 / U:0.100 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site