From: Wolfram Sang <wsa-z923LK4zBo2bacvFa/9K2g@public.gmane.org>
To: Thomas Gessler
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-xiic: Fix big-endian register access
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:18:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141113001831.GB2062@katana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1413216527-11933-1-git-send-email-Thomas.Gessler-Tvfv6JZYqycq7YrIr1+ioITjL5QYi2yUhC4ANOJQIlc@public.gmane.org>
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 06:08:47PM +0200, Thomas Gessler wrote:
> The driver tried to access device registers with the (little-endian)
> iowrite/ioread functions. While this worked on little-endian machines
> (e.g. Microblaze with AXI bus), it made the driver unusable on
> big-endian machines (e.g. PPC405 with PLB).
>
> During the probe function, the driver tried to write a 32-bit reset mask
> into the reset register. This caused an error interrupt on big-endian
> systems, because the device detected an invalid (byte-swapped) reset
> mask. The result was an Oops.
>
> The patch implements an endianness detection similar to the one used in
> other Xilinx drivers like drivers/spi/spi-xilinx.c. It was tested on a
> PPC405/PLB system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gessler <Thomas.Gessler-Tvfv6JZYqycq7YrIr1+ioITjL5QYi2yUhC4ANOJQIlc@public.gmane.org>
Applied to for-next, thanks!
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2014-10-13 16:08 [PATCH] i2c: i2c-xiic: Fix big-endian register access Thomas Gessler
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