[PATCH 2/2] uio:powerpc:mpc85xx: l2-cache-sram uio driver implementation

Wenhu Wang wenhu.wang at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 14 18:39:36 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 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?
>

Yes, understand. It's clear straight forward.
I will update those in patch v2.

Thanks,
Wenhu


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