[PATCH] add big endian version of ld_/st_ IO access macros and convert main 8xx code to use it

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:42:42PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> 
> On Sep 7, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
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> >I'm not fan of the approach. You should use in_/out_ macros for IOs. If
> >you don't need eieio on 8xx , then just #ifdef it out of the
> >implementation of these.
> 
> Yeah, #ifdef :-)  That patch wouldn't go anywhere (well,
> to /dev/null perhaps).

Well, its easy to s/st/out/ - s/ld/in/, so its still a useful patch. ;)

> We can just use the in_/out_ macros that are there.  The eieio
> doesn't hurt anything on the 8xx.

eieio/isync are not required. There's no need to execute redudant
instructions and occupy kernel space.