Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

Alexey Zaytsev
2007-05-08T08:48:53Z

On 5/8/07, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org> wrote:
> Michael Jones wrote:
>
> >> +#ifndef __ARMEB__
> >> +#warning Little endian mode not supported
> >> +#endif
> >
> > Personally I'm less fussed about WAN / LE support. Anyone with any
> > sense will run ixp4xx boards doing such a specialised network
> > operation as BE. Also, NSLU2-Linux can't test this functionality with
> > our LE setup as we don't have this hardware on-board. You may just
> > want to declare a depends on ARMEB in Kconfig (with or without OR
> > (ARM || BROKEN) ) and have done with it - it's up to you.
>
> Christian Hohnstaedt's work did support LE though.
>
> Not all ixp4xx boards are by definition "doing such a specialised
> network operation".
>

I was always curious, why do people want to run ixp4xx in LE mode? What
are the benefits that overweight the obvious performance degradation?