Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness

Paul Mackerras
2008-02-20T00:57:45Z

Andrew Morton writes:

> Bizarrely, the original author of the patch (Anton) has fallen off the cc.
> Could whoever did that please thwap himself?
>
> Anyway, my head is now officially spinning. Did anyone actually have a
> reason why we shouldn't proceed with Anton's patch?

I was wondering if it would be sufficient to provide alternative
versions of fb_readl, fb_writel etc. that do byte-swapping. That
would mean that all framebuffers would have to have the same
endianness, but that would suffice for embedded systems such as
Anton's and would end up a lot simpler IMHO.

Paul.