MMIO and gcc re-ordering issue

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri May 30 11:13:23 EST 2008


> I do -- in all the drivers for on-chip peripherals that are shared
> between AT91 ARM (LE) and AVR32 (BE). Since everything goes on inside
> the chip, we must use LE accesses on ARM and BE accesses on AVR32.
> 
> Currently, this is the only interface I know that can do native-endian
> accesses, so if you take it away, I'm gonna need an alternative
> interface that doesn't do byteswapping.

Are you aware that these also don't provide any ordering guarantee ?

Ben.





More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list