From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:13:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from extgw-uk.mips.com ([IPv6:::ffff:62.254.210.129]:45582 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:12:50 +0000 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1NF6I0I018377; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:06:18 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1NF6Hfe018376; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:06:17 GMT Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:06:17 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Dan Malek Cc: JP Foster , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Big Endian au1550 Message-ID: <20050223150617.GA18290@linux-mips.org> References: <1109157737.16445.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <000301c5199d$3154ad40$0300a8c0@Exterity.local> <1109160313.16445.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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: 7325 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 23, 2005 at 10:03:01AM -0500, Dan Malek wrote: > >Fair enough. Has anyone got big-endian au1xxx working ever? > > The only issues with big endian Au1xxx is the USB and potentially > PCI. There have been recent patches posted for USB that could > fix this. The PCI problem is with the read/write/in/out macros. > They were never written properly and I haven't checked to see > if this was corrected in 2.6. > > That aside, I have worked on several big endian Au1xxx projects > that are successful. I never found a way, aside from #ifdefs for > byte sex in generic files, to make the same source compile in > either mode. It's a fairly low priority on my list of other Au1xxx > projects :-) > > The Linux sources have worked, and if they currently don't we > should fix them. So I guess this would apply to all Alchemy-based platforms and thus I should offer big endian on all of them again? Ralf