From: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ioremap definition in generic io.h
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:52:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285847579.2639.3.camel@needafix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009301345.16817.arnd@arndb.de>
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 13:45 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 September 2010, Jonas Bonn wrote:
> > On another note, looking at the definitions of ioread32/iowrite32, they
> > imply a little-endian bus. Some architectures (e.g. Microblaze) define
> > these to use host-native byte ordering instead. Is there a correct
> > way these functions should be defined?
>
> ioread32/iowrite32 are accessor functions for PCI byte order which is
> little endian. If microblaze does this differently, that is a microblaze
> bug. Any code that needs big-endian I/O should use ioread32be/iowrite32be.
>
So what's the correct way to do host-native access? For example, big
endian access on a big endian processor. I think I'm missing something
fundamental here...
/Jonas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-30 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-29 7:59 ioremap definition in generic io.h Jonas Bonn
2010-09-29 10:53 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-09-29 11:07 ` Jonas Bonn
2010-09-30 11:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-30 11:52 ` Jonas Bonn [this message]
2010-09-30 12:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-01 8:35 ` Jonas Bonn
2010-10-01 8:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
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