asm/io.h; why does writel() write an le32 on ppc?

[Gabriel Paubert]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Brad Parker wrote:

>
> Sorry to be daft, but why does writel() write an le32 on the ppc?
>
> in asm/io.h it uses out_le32, unless the machine is an APUS, in which
> case it just writes big endian...
>
> (is PCI defined as little endian?)

Sadly, yes.

	Gabriel.


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