From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: eliezert@broadcom.com, andi@firstfloor.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, mchan@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][BNX2X] round three
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:58:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071015145829.1acabefb@freepuppy.rosehill> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071015.123850.26516814.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:38:50 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: "Eliezer Tamir" <eliezert@broadcom.com>
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:27:29 +0200
>
> > Unfortunately, the firmware code is different for LE and BE machines.
> > We had issues with the BE firmware that appear to be resolved.
> > Hopefully, the next version will have both.
>
> If this means we get two copies of the firmware, this should be
> rethought. The space cost of the firmware (both in terms of source
> code size and object code size) is already enormous.
>
> I would definitely prefer if there were only little-endian firmware,
> and the driver uses "cpu_to_le32()" and friends to access chip shared
> data structures.
>
> Most cpus have endian swapping loads and stores, accessible via
> cpu_to_le32p() and similar interfaces, so the cost on big-endian of
> doing things this way is very close to zero.
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What about using loadable firmware rather than building it into the driver?
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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-15 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-10 17:49 [PATCH][BNX2X] round three Eliezer Tamir
2007-10-10 19:52 ` Eliezer Tamir
2007-10-11 0:59 ` David Miller
2007-10-11 17:53 ` Eliezer Tamir
2007-10-11 21:40 ` David Miller
2007-10-11 1:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-11 17:13 ` Eliezer Tamir
2007-10-11 1:54 ` [PATCH][BNX2X] round three - sparse warnings Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-11 17:21 ` Eliezer Tamir
2007-10-12 14:47 ` [PATCH][BNX2X] round three Andi Kleen
2007-10-12 22:03 ` David Miller
2007-10-15 15:27 ` Eliezer Tamir
2007-10-15 16:05 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-15 16:22 ` Eliezer Tamir
2007-10-15 16:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-15 19:42 ` David Miller
2007-10-15 19:38 ` David Miller
2007-10-15 21:58 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-10-15 22:00 ` David Miller
2007-10-15 22:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-16 15:00 ` Eliezer Tamir
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