From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>,
Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:36:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CBD25E2.2050404@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16xVSi-0000FN-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>>Doing it with a loopback like interface at a higher level is the much
>>saner operation - I understand why Martin removed the byteswap support,
>>and agree with it 100%. It just didn't make any sense from a driver
>>standpoint.
>
>
> We need to support partitioning on loopback devices in that case.
>
>
>>The only reason byteswapping exists is a rather historical one: Linux did
>>the wrong thing for "insw/outsw" on big-endian architectures at one point
>>(it byteswapped the data).
>
>
> A small number of other setups people wired the IDE the quick and easy
> way and their native format is indeed ass backwards - some M68K disks and
> the Tivo are examples of that. Interworking requires byteswapping and the
> ability to handle byteswapped partition tables.
I said it already multiple times Alan - please note that the byte-swapping code
for *physically* crosswired systems is *still there*. OK?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-17 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-06 1:01 Linux 2.5.8-pre2 Linus Torvalds
2002-04-06 6:59 ` Larry McVoy
2002-04-07 10:17 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-07 10:27 ` Russell King
2002-04-07 10:42 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-07 10:56 ` Russell King
2002-04-07 13:34 ` Russell King
2002-04-07 14:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-07 10:50 ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-09 8:05 ` [PATCH] 2.5.8-pre2 IDE 29b Martin Dalecki
2002-04-10 13:14 ` [PATCH] 2.5.8-pre3 IDE 30 Martin Dalecki
2002-04-10 13:16 ` [PATCH] 2.5.8-pre3 IDE 31 Martin Dalecki
2002-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH] 2.5.8-pre3 IDE 32 Martin Dalecki
2002-04-14 13:55 ` [PATCH] 2.5.8-pre3 IDE 33 Martin Dalecki
2002-04-15 13:45 ` [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 35 Martin Dalecki
2002-04-16 7:05 ` [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36 Martin Dalecki
2002-04-16 8:30 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-16 7:33 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-16 8:43 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-16 9:19 ` David Lang
2002-04-16 8:43 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-16 14:14 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-16 13:49 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-16 15:24 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-16 15:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-16 16:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-16 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-16 16:25 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-16 16:33 ` Padraig Brady
2002-04-16 17:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-16 17:00 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-16 17:04 ` David Lang
2002-04-16 17:00 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-16 17:09 ` David Lang
2002-04-16 17:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-16 17:16 ` David Lang
2002-04-17 7:44 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-17 9:33 ` David Lang
2002-04-16 17:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-04-17 7:46 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-17 9:26 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-17 9:39 ` David Lang
2002-04-17 20:58 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-17 9:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-17 1:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-04-17 8:39 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-17 8:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-16 15:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-16 15:58 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-16 16:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-17 7:38 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-16 15:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-16 16:05 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-16 15:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-16 16:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-16 17:06 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-18 20:33 ` eNBD on loopback [was Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36] Pavel Machek
2002-04-18 20:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-18 10:45 ` regarding NFS Jehanzeb Hameed
2002-04-19 9:36 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-04-19 1:19 ` Jehanzeb Hameed
2002-04-19 12:24 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-04-19 2:26 ` Jehanzeb Hameed
2002-04-19 13:46 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-04-17 7:36 ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
2002-04-17 9:24 ` [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36 Alan Cox
2002-04-16 22:46 ` Brian Gerst
2002-04-17 7:52 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-16 9:22 ` [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 37 Martin Dalecki
2002-04-18 9:14 ` [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 38 Martin Dalecki
2002-04-18 10:48 ` Russell King
2002-04-18 9:54 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-18 9:16 ` [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 37 Martin Dalecki
2002-04-18 9:22 ` [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 39 Martin Dalecki
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-16 9:09 [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36 Norbert Kiesel
2002-04-16 8:21 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-16 10:06 ` Norbert Kiesel
2002-04-16 9:20 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-16 10:20 ` Norbert Kiesel
2002-04-17 10:10 Petr Vandrovec
2002-04-17 10:20 ` David Lang
2002-04-19 17:17 Peter T. Breuer
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