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From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
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Subject: Re: Yosemite/440EP why are readl()/ioread32() setup to
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:09:17AM +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> On 2/2/06, Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > > 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}
> 
> What about arch independent drivers? Are there any generic approach
> for this or do you have to stick to ugly #ifdefs to decide between
> in_be32/inl ?

ioread*be()/iowrite*be() can be used for this. Since the generic
big endian accessors became a standard thing a little while back,
all the PPC on-chip drivers should move to that. It's just a matter
of time.

-Matt