Hello !

In response to Jun Suns mail sent on 06/24/2004

Anybody has tried IDE disks in big endian mode with 2.6 kernel?
I seem to have troubles with Malta board.

Current malta board has CONFIG_SWAP_IO_SPACE defined and therefore
all inw, inl and their friends are byte-swapped in BE mode.  As a
results all IDE IO ops (such as ide_inw, etc) do swapping too.

A quick experiement shows those IDE IO ops should not do swapping.
Anybody knows why?

Apparently fixing the above is not enough.  I either encountered
failure to read partition table or having DMA error.  Any clues
here?

I suppose this problem really should exist for other arches
with BE support.  Anybody knows how other arches deal with this?

Thanks.

Jun

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The following patch gets the Malta to work well. However, this patch introduces board specific changes in the IDE subsystem.
This is not a final patch but maybe there can be a better approach to this issue

Thanks
Manish