Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] firewire: endianess fix | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:40:22 +1100 |
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On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 14:58 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 23 February 2008 06:24:17 am Stefan Richter wrote: > > The generation of incoming requests was filled in in wrong byte order on > > machines with big endian CPU. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> > > Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org > > Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org > > --- > > > > This patch is a shot in the dark, based on a warning when building with > > C=1 CHECKFLAGS="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__". Is it really a fix, or was the > > previous code accidentally correct? > > > > This needs to be tested on different big endian PCs, if possible with > > the Apple Uninorth FireWire controller and other types of controllers. > > One test which involves ohci->request_generation is simply with an SBP-2 > > device (harddisk, CD-ROM...). Does SBP-2 login etc. work? > > Works just fine with the Apple UniNorth controller in my powerbook in cursory > testing. Tested with multiple sbp2 hard disks, plugging and unplugging, > mounting and unmounting, etc.
Which specific rev/version of the uninorth controller ?
There is the "interesting" one has vendorID Apple and deviceID 0x0018, the normal ones have different deviceIDs (and are just lucent controllers afaik).
Ben.
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