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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18] defxx: Big-endian hosts support
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:13:22 -0500
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To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  The PDQ DMA engine requires a different byte-swapping mode for big-endian 
> hosts; also the MAC address which is read from a register through PIO has 
> to be byte-swapped.  These changes have been verified with DEFPA-DC (PCI) 
> boards and a Broadcom BCM91250A (MIPS CPU based) host.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>

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