Yosemite/440EP why are readl()/ioread32() setup to readlittle-endian?

[Kumar Gala]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

> >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Porter <mporter at kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> 
>  Matt> read*/write* and ioread*/iowrite* generate outbound little
>  Matt> endian cycles on ALL arches, period.  They are intended
>  Matt> only for PCI use and have generic names only because of
>  Matt> the assumption that "all the world is a PC".
> 
> What is the preferred way of accessing non-PCI devices then? Direct
> pointer access?

No direct pointer access is bad. On PPC You can use
in_be{8,16,32}/out_be{8,16,32}

- kumar