From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from buildserver.ru.mvista.com (unknown [85.21.88.6]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED31DDE9E for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:37:48 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:37:45 +0300 From: Anton Vorontsov To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness Message-ID: <20080218173745.GA25628@localhost.localdomain> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 In-Reply-To: <19805.1203355811@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adaplas@gmail.com, Krzysztof Helt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , Andrew Morton Reply-To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:30:11PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:18:47 +0100, Krzysztof Helt said: > > I know two fb drivers which use endianess information (pm2fb and s3c2410fb). > > Both resolve endianess at driver level. Actually, both handle it by setting special > > bits so the graphics chip itself reorder bytes to transform foreign endianess. > > I understand that this patch is for chips which cannot reorder bytes by themselves. > > Does anybody know of such a chip that's actually available in the wild? LE Fujitsu mb86277 (MINT) on the BE MPC8360E. -- Anton Vorontsov email: cbou@mail.ru backup email: ya-cbou@yandex.ru irc://irc.freenode.net/bd2