From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 05 Apr 2004 13:55:20 +0100 (BST) Received: from sorrow.cyrius.com ([IPv6:::ffff:65.19.161.204]:17412 "EHLO sorrow.cyrius.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:55:19 +0100 Received: by sorrow.cyrius.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id 724FA64D4F; Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:55:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by deprecation.cyrius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 805BBFEED; Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:54:36 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:54:36 +0100 From: Martin Michlmayr To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [patch] swarm-cs4297a: Support little-endian configuration Message-ID: <20040405125436.GA2741@deprecation.cyrius.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i 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: 4731 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: tbm@cyrius.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips * Maciej W. Rozycki [2004-04-05 13:09]: > The swarm-cs4297a driver currently works only with a big-endian > configuration -- if run in little-endian one, it floods the console with > an infinite stream of error messages, making the kernel effectively Since you seem to use a SWARM in little-endian, let me ask 2 questions. Are you using their boot loader (sibyl), and did you notice it has problems in little-endian? (IF so, do you have patches? ;-) Also, have you been able to compile sibyl against a normal e2fslibs rather than their custom version? -- Martin Michlmayr tbm@cyrius.com