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From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 06:54:09PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> > 
> >  Matt> read*/write* and ioread*/iowrite* generate outbound little
> >  Matt> endian cycles on ALL arches, period.  They are intended
> >  Matt> only for PCI use and have generic names only because of
> >  Matt> the assumption that "all the world is a PC".
> > 
> > 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}

Ack. Also, it should be pointed out that there are countless
examples of PPC drivers where this is done properly. 4xx, 83xx,
85xx, etc. on-chip peripherals all do this since they are
naturally BE registers.

-Matt