Re: [PATCH] fix ide-iops for big endian archs

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-09-26T15:10:27Z

>On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 13:32, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> I enclosed the patch as an attachement too in case the mailer screws
>> it up...
>
>Please do one thing. For the stuff that needs weird powerpcisms put all
>the seperate stuff in one block with its own copy of the static inlines
>so we dont have in ifdef in half the functions in the file

This is _NOT_ a weird PowerPC'ism !!!

It's just a matter of use the proper operation, that is "insw/outsw"
instead of trying to re-implement it with a loop of basic inw/outw,
which is wrong for _any_ BE arch (except maybe weird m68k'ism where
IDE is wired the wrong way around)

Ben.