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

[Dale Farnsworth]

In article <20060202090827.GA12810 at gate.ebshome.net> you write:
> 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?

Such #ifdefs are found in drivers/net/smc91x.h

-Dale