From: James L Peterson <peterson@austin.ibm.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, anton@au.ibm.com, mj@suse.cz,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PowerPC Linux and PCI
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:54:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CC591AA.3561D419@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15553.12447.849592.261245@argo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <3CC41AC6.BD8E32E4@austin.ibm.com> <15557.5295.921549.964163@argo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20020423.011432.86512016.davem@redhat.com>
What does this mean? This suggests that PCI controller for
big-endian systems are not interchangable with PCI controllers
for little-endian systems, because the controller itself does
byte swapping (is that what you mean by "byte twisting"?)
jim
"David S. Miller" wrote:
> An important point to mention is that big endian systems need to do
> byte twisting in the PCI controller for all the byte-lane issues to
> work out properly.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-23 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20020307220318.GA4664@haven>
2002-04-19 21:37 ` PowerPC Linux and PCI James L Peterson
2002-04-19 21:38 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-20 9:10 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-04-22 14:14 ` James L Peterson
2002-04-23 8:00 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-04-23 8:14 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-23 16:54 ` James L Peterson [this message]
2002-04-23 17:53 ` James L Peterson
2002-04-23 17:16 Ed Vance
2002-04-24 3:59 ` David S. Miller
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2002-04-24 16:45 Ed Vance
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