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From: Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>
To: Ken Aaker <kaaker@silverbacksystems.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Mangled struct hd_driveid with MIPSEB.
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:12:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CEA015E.65E15A1A@mips.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3CE3CB16.1040503@silverbacksystems.com

I just noticed that Ralf hadn't merged in the full IDE patch I send, so that's
why it doesn't work for you.
Ralf has just checked in the rest yesterday, so try check out the latest
sources and see if that helps.

/Carsten


Ken Aaker wrote:

> The problem with the difference isn't that it's byte swapped, its that
> the byte swapping isn't respecting the data types inside the structure.
> It fixes all of the "short" entities, but it re-orders the fields that
> happen to be two chars next to each other, and the "shorts" that are
> part of the two "ints" for lba capacity and capacity values are in the
> wrong order, even though the bytes within the "shorts" are in the right
> order. So, when the fixup code in ide.h is run, the values are still wrong.
>
> old ----
> 0070: 3f0010fc fb000001 80ac7e03 00000704   "?.........~....."
> 0080: 03007800 78007800 78000000 00000000   "..x.x.x.x......."
> new---
> 0070: 003ffc10 00fb0100 ac80037e 00000407   ".?.........~...."
> 0080: 00030078 00780078 00780000 00000000   "...x.x.x.x......"
>
> proper--- (after fix up).
> 0070: 003f00fb fc100001 037eac80 00000407   ".?.......~......"
> 0080: 00030078 00780078 00780000 00000000   "...x.x.x.x......"
>
> Ken

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      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-21  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-15 20:42 Mangled struct hd_driveid with MIPSEB Ken Aaker
2002-05-16  6:54 ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-05-16  8:39   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-05-16 10:06     ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-05-16 10:57       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-05-16 15:07   ` Ken Aaker
2002-05-21  8:12     ` Carsten Langgaard [this message]

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