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

Eugene Surovegin ebs at ebshome.net
Thu Feb 2 20:08:27 EST 2006


On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:09:17AM +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> On 2/2/06, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > > 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}
> 
> What about arch independent drivers? Are there any generic approach
> for this or do you have to stick to ugly #ifdefs to decide between
> in_be32/inl ?

I'm curious, could you give an example of such arch independent 
driver?

-- 
Eugene




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