From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <00030117261302.01280@argo.linuxcare.com.au> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 05:37:13 -0700 (MST) From: Gary Thomas To: Paul Mackerras Subject: RE: insw/outsw in ide.h Cc: Cort Dougan Cc: Cort Dougan , Linux/PPC Developer list Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On 01-Mar-00 Paul Mackerras wrote: > > Is there any PPC platform that needs to use a byte-swapping insw/outsw in > the IDE driver? (I can't see why any platform would, but you never > know...) > > I have changed the insw/outsw/insl/outsl in include/asm-ppc/io.h to be the > non-swapping form (in my tree at least, I'll push it to bk soon). I would > like to take out the special definitions of insw/outsw in > include/asm-ppc/ide.h and just let the ide driver use the standard > (non-swapping) form. Will this cause a problem for any PPC platforms? > I can't tell for sure, but won't this break existing [already installed] systems? I agree that the data path really doesn't matter, but once it's on the media it probably does. Have you tested this change on a system with an IDE drive that has a live file system in place? .. just my 2c ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/