Re: [PATCH] Endian-ness bugs in yellowfin.c

Val Henson
2001-09-14T20:20:14Z

(Removed Donald Becker from CC list since his mail server is timing out.)

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:50:54PM -0600, Cort Dougan wrote:
> Only the PPC-based gemini board uses that driver (ncr885e) and Val is the
> maintainer of that board. These patches that she sent fix yellowfin.c for
> the ncr885e chip on the big-endian PPC. I just pointed at the junk pile,
> Val is actually doing the work to put the ncr885e drivers there.

Yep, exactly. Here's the revised patch. It lists the yellowfin
driver once in Config.in, removes the ncr885e driver, and changes the
#ifdef __powerpc__ to #ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN.

Unfortunately, the patch is now 56K. It's available for download
here:

http://www.nmt.edu/~val/patches/yellowfinpatch

-VAL