From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: jlquinn@us.ibm.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: readw byte sex?
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:15:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38E120DF.DD47F662@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 852568B0.00703001.00@D51MTA03.pok.ibm.com
jlquinn@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> I've seen info about this go by in the past, but wasn't paying careful
> attention...
>
> I'm working on trying to get my Advansys 970UW working under PPC linux
> 2.2.x. I'm not tackling 2.3.x because I don't think the driver itself is
> up to date with respect to the 2.3 tree, while it is OK for x86 and alpha
> 2.2.x. I'm having (surprise, surprise) byte swapping problems, which I so
> far am tracing to the following construct and pals:
>
> x = le16_to_cpu(readw(addr))
>
> Both of these are byteswapping, leaving me with a reversed value, which of
> course causes havoc later. What's the correct way to do this? I can't
> find where the exact platform-independent semantics of readw are defined.
>
> Is this a FAQ?
readw is defined as functioning on a little endian PCI bus, so it
already should byte swap for you.
--
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2000-03-28 20:25 readw byte sex? jlquinn
2000-03-28 21:15 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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