From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <18363.31427.989835.105966@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:56:35 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness In-Reply-To: <20080219040530.7b1d115d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080205154432.GA8749@localhost.localdomain> <20080214224942.a0cb6218.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080215164542.GB16810@localhost.localdomain> <20080218081847.e9e65f2f.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> <19805.1203355811@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <47BA162C.5000807@anagramm.de> <1203381353.6740.59.camel@pasglop> <47BABD3A.7010102@anagramm.de> <20080219040530.7b1d115d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adaplas@gmail.com, Krzysztof Helt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Geert Uytterhoeven List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Andrew Morton writes: > Bizarrely, the original author of the patch (Anton) has fallen off the cc. > Could whoever did that please thwap himself? > > Anyway, my head is now officially spinning. Did anyone actually have a > reason why we shouldn't proceed with Anton's patch? I was wondering if it would be sufficient to provide alternative versions of fb_readl, fb_writel etc. that do byte-swapping. That would mean that all framebuffers would have to have the same endianness, but that would suffice for embedded systems such as Anton's and would end up a lot simpler IMHO. Paul.