From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>,
Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>,
Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, grant.likely@secretlab.ca,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, geert@linux-m68k.org,
dahinds@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/block/xsysace - replace in(out)_8/in(out)_be16/in(out)_le16 with generic iowrite(read)8/16(be)
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:01:33 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360098093.4529.14.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7613336.0C5oRATusX@wuerfel>
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 16:12 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Ok. In this case, I would recommend making the default for this driver
> little-endian, and adding a quirk for broken hardware bridges like the
> one you cited to have a mixed-endian mode if configured so at compile
> time.
>
> It seems that on all normal platforms, this device should behave as
> little-endian, while the Xilinx bridge can be either big-endian
> or little-endian, depending on whether it is used in 8-bit or 16-bit
> mode, so if we are using this, it cannot be known at compile time.
Why ? 8-bit devices shouldn't need anything special. 16-bit should be
wired properly to not need anything special either. Why would we bother
supporting a bad wiring ? Let them feel the pain, with luck it will
provide incentive for them to fix it.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-05 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-29 16:02 [PATCH] drivers/block/xsysace - replace in(out)_8/in(out)_be16/in(out)_le16 with generic iowrite(read)8/16(be) Alexey Brodkin
2013-01-29 16:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-30 11:03 ` Alexey Brodkin
2013-01-30 11:13 ` Michal Simek
2013-01-30 12:10 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-30 12:31 ` Michal Simek
2013-01-30 14:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-04 9:26 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-04 17:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-05 2:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-05 10:54 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-05 12:09 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-02-05 12:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-05 12:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-05 12:38 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-05 14:03 ` Alexey Brodkin
2013-02-05 15:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-05 21:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2013-02-06 10:03 ` Grant Likely
2013-02-06 16:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-06 16:21 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-07 0:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-06 17:40 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-06 19:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-02-07 7:23 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-07 7:38 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-02-07 8:01 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-07 8:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-02-07 8:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-07 14:19 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-07 23:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-11 10:38 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-11 15:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-11 15:36 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-11 15:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-11 15:57 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-11 16:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-12 0:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-12 11:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-12 10:11 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-12 11:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-12 12:14 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-12 13:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-12 12:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-12 0:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-12 10:03 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-05 21:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-05 21:25 ` Alexey Brodkin
2013-02-05 23:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-06 10:14 ` Grant Likely
2013-02-06 16:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-06 21:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-07 12:09 ` Alexey Brodkin
2013-02-07 12:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-07 12:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-07 14:31 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-07 14:35 ` Alexey Brodkin
2013-02-07 14:39 ` Grant Likely
2013-02-07 14:51 ` Grant Likely
2013-02-07 15:12 ` Alexey Brodkin
2013-02-07 15:23 ` Grant Likely
2013-02-07 15:28 ` Alexey Brodkin
2013-02-07 16:44 ` Grant Likely
2013-02-07 16:56 ` Alexey Brodkin
2013-02-07 17:16 ` Grant Likely
2013-02-07 17:22 ` Alexey Brodkin
2013-02-08 7:45 ` Grant Likely
2013-02-07 21:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-07 21:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-07 23:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-08 6:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-02-08 7:14 ` Grant Likely
2013-02-07 21:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-12 17:02 ` Michal Simek
2013-02-12 17:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-21 17:01 ` Alexey Brodkin
2013-06-19 8:56 ` xsysace driver support on arches other than PPC/Microblaze Alexey Brodkin
2013-06-19 9:09 ` Alexey Brodkin
2013-06-19 12:13 ` Andy Shevchenko
2013-06-19 12:56 ` Alexey Brodkin
2013-06-19 14:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-07 21:06 ` [PATCH] drivers/block/xsysace - replace in(out)_8/in(out)_be16/in(out)_le16 with generic iowrite(read)8/16(be) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-05 23:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-06 8:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-02-06 16:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-05 10:45 ` Michal Simek
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-06-21 14:02 Alexey Brodkin
2013-06-21 14:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-21 18:35 ` Alexey Brodkin
2013-06-21 18:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
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