From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3422DDDE02 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:42:15 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] firewire: endianess fix From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Stefan Richter In-Reply-To: References: <20080220220326.GA22328@uranus.ravnborg.org> <1203545913.25307.47.camel@brick> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:41:46 +1100 Message-Id: <1204166506.15052.336.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Kristian Hoegsberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Jarod Wilson , linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Sam Ravnborg , Harvey Harrison Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 12:24 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > The generation of incoming requests was filled in in wrong byte order on > machines with big endian CPU. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter > Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org > --- > > This patch is a shot in the dark, based on a warning when building with > C=1 CHECKFLAGS="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__". Is it really a fix, or was the > previous code accidentally correct? > > This needs to be tested on different big endian PCs, if possible with > the Apple Uninorth FireWire controller and other types of controllers. > One test which involves ohci->request_generation is simply with an SBP-2 > device (harddisk, CD-ROM...). Does SBP-2 login etc. work? Do we have the workaround for the old Apple UniNorth in the new FW OHCI driver (for selfID swapping iirc ?) There are several variants of Apple OHCI's here, but afaik only one with a "problem". Cheers, Ben.