ppc LE questions (seeking help hand info pointers)
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert at linux-m68k.org
Fri Sep 21 17:22:00 EST 2001
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Timothy A. Seufert wrote:
> At 4:19 PM -0400 9/20/01, Mark Salisbury wrote:
> >Holger Bettag wrote:
> (Specifically: in order to support PPC-LE, all the hardware drivers
> needed for your platform will need to be rewritten to be aware of
> munging. The alternative is to make the kernel run in regular BE
But PCI drivers already use readl() and friends, so the differences can be
hidden there? => no driver changes.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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