From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anton Vorontsov Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:37:45 +0300 Message-ID: <20080218173745.GA25628@localhost.localdomain> References: <20080205154432.GA8749@localhost.localdomain> <20080214224942.a0cb6218.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080215164542.GB16810@localhost.localdomain> <20080218081847.e9e65f2f.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> <19805.1203355811@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Reply-To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JR9w5-0007b5-OQ for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:37:50 -0800 Received: from [85.21.88.6] (helo=buildserver.ru.mvista.com) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1JR9w4-0004kw-B8 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:37:49 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <19805.1203355811@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adaplas@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , Andrew Morton On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:30:11PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:18:47 +0100, Krzysztof Helt said: > > I know two fb drivers which use endianess information (pm2fb and s3c2410fb). > > Both resolve endianess at driver level. Actually, both handle it by setting special > > bits so the graphics chip itself reorder bytes to transform foreign endianess. > > I understand that this patch is for chips which cannot reorder bytes by themselves. > > Does anybody know of such a chip that's actually available in the wild? LE Fujitsu mb86277 (MINT) on the BE MPC8360E. -- Anton Vorontsov email: cbou@mail.ru backup email: ya-cbou@yandex.ru irc://irc.freenode.net/bd2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/