Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 May 2007 10:55:15 +0200 | From | Tomasz Chmielewski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS |
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Alexey Zaytsev schrieb: > On 5/8/07, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org> wrote: >> Michael Jones wrote: >> >> >> +#ifndef __ARMEB__ >> >> +#warning Little endian mode not supported >> >> +#endif >> > >> > Personally I'm less fussed about WAN / LE support. Anyone with any >> > sense will run ixp4xx boards doing such a specialised network >> > operation as BE. Also, NSLU2-Linux can't test this functionality with >> > our LE setup as we don't have this hardware on-board. You may just >> > want to declare a depends on ARMEB in Kconfig (with or without OR >> > (ARM || BROKEN) ) and have done with it - it's up to you. >> >> Christian Hohnstaedt's work did support LE though. >> >> Not all ixp4xx boards are by definition "doing such a specialised >> network operation". >> > > I was always curious, why do people want to run ixp4xx in LE mode? What > are the benefits that overweight the obvious performance degradation?
I guess the main reason, at least for me, is that there is only one distro that properly supports LE ARM: Debian.
It greatly simplifies management/administration of a higher number of devices, given the fact that Debian also supports other architectures (not just x86/64, sometimes PPC, like most distros do).
Not always network performance is to most important factor.
-- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org
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