Hi Bruce,

Bruce_Leonard@selinc.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got an MPC8347 running the 2.6.24-rc5 kernel and I'm trying to access 
> the GPIO registers.  I already have a driver that's doing related work 
> (tho across PCI) and I just want to remap the internal CPU address to a 
> kernal address and be able to read/write the register using an IOCTL call 
> from user space.  My problem is, every accessor I try does an endian 
> conversion before giving me my data.  So here's some code snipits of what 
> I'm doing:
>
> request_mem_region(0xe0000c00, 24, "my driver");  // 0xe0000c00 is the 
> memory mapped location of the GPIO regs
> data_ptr2 = ioremap(0xe0000c00, 24);
>
> Then in the IOCTL function I try to read from the register.  First I 
> tried:
>
> ioread32(data_ptr2);
>
> I know that the mapping is working okay because I got the data from the 
> GPIO direction register, but it's been byte swapped.  The contents of the 
> register are 0xFFFFFFE7, but what my user space app gets back is 
> 0xE7FFFFFF.  I've tried all the varients I can find, readl(), inl(), 
> in_be32(), in_le32(), even __raw_readl().  They all give me back byte 
> swapped data.  I'm very confused.  Especially since I've looked at 
> in_be32() and in_le32(), they're both inline assembly, and they use 
> different instructions.  They can't be giving me the same results.  I'm 
> sure I'm not the first person to want to access PowerPC internal registers 
> through a driver.  Can anyone give me a hint what I'm doing wrong?
>
> As an additional question related to PowerPC inline assembly, can anyone 
> tell me what "%U1%X1" means in the following:
>
> __asm__ __volatile__("lwz%U1%X1 %0,%1; twi 0,%0,0; isync" : "=r" (ret) : 
> "m" (*addr));
>
> Thanks.
>
> See 'ya!
>
> Bruce
> _______________________________________________
>   
I've attached a poorly-written-yet-functional GPIO driver that I wrote a 
while ago for the MPC8349 (same as what you have for all intents and 
purposes). It uses in_be32() and out_be32().

Let me know if you have any questions.

regards,
Ben