From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:16:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p508B5CC5.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.92.197]:14431 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:16:50 +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 i1PIGlex010801; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:16:47 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by fluff.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i1PIGjFE010800; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:16:45 +0100 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:16:45 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: "Liu Hongming (Alan)" , Alan Cox , Linux/MIPS Development Subject: Re: IDE driver problem Message-ID: <20040225181645.GA10742@linux-mips.org> References: <15F9E1AE3207D6119CEA00D0B7DD5F680219C882@TMTMS> <20040225171315.GB17217@linux-mips.org> 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: 4443 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 06:38:17PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > 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. > > I guess his hardware has a byteswapped IDE bus, like on Atari, Q40/Q60 and > Tivo. Oh, those. I fear every possible way to hookup the IDE bus in a more or particularly less intelligent way to a system has already been found out there ... Ralf