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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix IO access in rivafb
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 06:18:10 +0800
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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>, adaplas@pol.net
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On Tuesday 09 November 2004 05:50, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 16:33 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > Hmm, I'll ask Guido Guenther if he can test the changes. I think a
> > different set of access macros for PPC might be a more preferrable
> > solution.
>
> Well, I'd rather leave the registers Little Endian, but then, it will
> clash with X which does put them into Big Endian mode, so that would
> have to be restored all the time.
>

I also asked Guido if he can test the removal of the code that puts the
hardware in big endian, although I told him that I prefer a new set of
access macros.  But I'll leave this decision to you people. 

Tony