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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:51:11 -0600
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.1p4 : dmasound ed21- Pismo byte-swap
From: Takashi Oe <toe@unlserve.unl.edu>
To: Iain Sandoe <iain@sandoe.co.uk>, <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
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On 1/18/01 6:04 PM, Iain Sandoe wrote:

>
> I forgot to say...
>
> this should (now I fixed a typo in the machine name) also solve the LE
> byte-swapping problem on Pismo (by soft-swapping).

Can't apps cope with it if it doesn't do the byte-swapping in H/W?  If it
can, I think the code should be removed.  No software translation in kernel
if we can avoid it at all.


Takashi Oe


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