From: schen@mvista.com (Steve Chen)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: ARM1176 register writes are in reverse?
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:56:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1254833774.3153.52.camel@linux-1lbu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9e8fcbd0910060510y3dd9ea36x6c97db47f0dfc886@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 17:40 +0530, Nicholas Van Orton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that register writes to ARM1176 need to be in the reverse
> order. That is, lets say I need to write 0xABCD to a register. But in
> the actual write using __raw_writel() the value needs to be changed to
> 0xCDAB. Why is this so? The Davinci or OMAP on the other hand for
> example, which is an ARM 926 does not need any such manipulation. Why
> is the ARM1176 an exception?
>
Are you working with TI Puma5? I suspect that reverse order is probably
due to specific hardware endianness implementation rather than generic
difference between ARM1176 and ARM926.
Regards,
Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-06 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-06 12:10 ARM1176 register writes are in reverse? Nicholas Van Orton
2009-10-06 12:56 ` Steve Chen [this message]
2009-10-06 13:12 ` Ben Dooks
2009-10-06 13:28 ` Nicholas Van Orton
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