[PATCH 2/2] uio:powerpc:mpc85xx: l2-cache-sram uio driver implementation
Greg KH
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Jun 14 18:03:18 AEST 2022
On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 07:53:46AM +0000, Wenhu Wang wrote:
> >> >> +
> >> >> +struct mpc85xx_l2ctlr {
> >> >> + u32 ctl; /* 0x000 - L2 control */
> >> >
> >> >What is the endian of these u32 values? You map them directly to
> >> >memory, so they must be specified some way, right? Please make it
> >> >obvious what they are.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Surely, the values should be u32 here, modified in v2
> >> The controller info could be found in
> >> "QorIQ¢â P2020 Integrated Processor Reference Manual"
> >> "Chapter 6 L2 Look-Aside Cache/SRAM"
> >> See: http://m4udit.dinauz.org/P2020RM_rev0.pdf
> >
> >That's not the answer to my question :)
> >
> >These are big-endian, right? Please mark them as such and access them
> >properly with the correct functions.
>
> Yes, they are big-edian.
> Does it work to add comments(about order and access functions) for the structure ahead of it£¿
> And appending like "_be", "_access_be" or "_big_endian"? (struct mpc85xx_l2ctlr_be {¡¦¡¦};
No, not comments, these should be of the type __be32, right?
thanks,
greg k-h
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