Re: [PATCH 2/5] I2O: SPARC fixes

[Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>]

Hi...

David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 03:30:39 +0000
>>On Gwe, 2005-11-18 at 17:22 -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>>>Ho hum, I guess keep it a config option for now until we find a
>>>way to auto-detect this reliably.
>>The notify functionality is mandatory. You are seeing the same cards
>>fail on sparc but work on x86. This sounds to me a lot more like an
>>unfound endian bug that needs fixing than a real lack of support
> That's very possible, but it also could be that the cards
> that fail only on Sparc have Sun forth firmware on them,
> which would thus only load firmware on Sparc boxes.
> I still think the endianness theory is more likely, however.
> Perhaps the I2O datastructures should be endian annotated
> and then pushed through sparse. :-)

Sounds good to me. Could i then find out if some BE<=>LE issues are still 
left? If so, is there a document which describes how it is done, or at 
least has a driver added it already?

Bye...
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