little endian page mapping on PQ3

[Joyeau Sylvain]

Jose,

You are right, PQ3 supports endianess choice on a per page basis. 
Without any hook in Linux, you can remap physical address range (but RAM), by calling __ioremap() with the "_PAGE_ENDIAN" bit set in the flags.

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sj

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> Subject: little endian page mapping on PQ3
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Looking at PQ3 documentation, it looks like there is a way to select
> on a page basis if we would like to map one particular page in BIG or
> LITTLE endian.
> This is a very nice feature when you need to exchange some data
> between a PC and a PQ3 target.
> 
> I am wondering if someone have already tryed this PQ3 feature ?
> I guess this would require some kind of hook in the kernel ...
> 
> Any clue ?
> 
> Thanks -  Jose
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