From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:13:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p508B5CC5.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.92.197]:18014 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:13:23 +0000 Received: from fluff.linux-mips.net (fluff.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i1PHDLex018869; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:13:21 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by fluff.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i1PHDFRb018868; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:13:15 +0100 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:13:15 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Liu Hongming (Alan)" Cc: Alan Cox , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: IDE driver problem Message-ID: <20040225171315.GB17217@linux-mips.org> References: <15F9E1AE3207D6119CEA00D0B7DD5F680219C882@TMTMS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15F9E1AE3207D6119CEA00D0B7DD5F680219C882@TMTMS> 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: 4440 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 Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:11:54PM +0800, Liu Hongming (Alan) wrote: > I have found out where the problem is. Since my hardware has > endian issue, fs/partition/msdos.c could not handle partition table > correctly. I have changed a little(still having much to change),and it > really works now. I'm not sure what you call endian issue here. The PC style partition table code we've used for years on big endian systems without problems. Ralf