From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sat, 21 Jun 2003 15:12:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from p508B6123.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.97.35]:11496 "EHLO dea.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 15:12:00 +0100 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5LEBvbv008504; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 16:11:57 +0200 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h5LEBupx008503; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 16:11:56 +0200 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 16:11:55 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Brian Murphy Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5] ide.h fix(es) Message-ID: <20030621141155.GA8315@linux-mips.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 2690 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 11:40:36PM +0200, Brian Murphy wrote: > this fixes some problems with undefined symbols in IDE and also > seems to work (as far as my limited testing can go at the moment). > Sorry if I was out of order in removing the big endian stuff, The big endian stuff was just old code, so from the point you were right with removing it. It's not an entirely correct solution though, on some MIPS IDE systems the OS has to do endianess conversion, on some the hardware takes care of it. IDE as a big endian thing that was made popular through the little endian PC platform has funny endianess issues at times ... Ralf