From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Wood Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:52:04 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH V4 09/11] ARM/PPC: add a common way to access registers In-Reply-To: <4B6C178B.4080802@denx.de> References: <1264513404-5991-1-git-send-email-sbabic@denx.de> <20100126150221.5049E3F6C0@gemini.denx.de> <4B62C655.3090707@denx.de> <20100203195312.E3700DEA7C0@gemini.denx.de> <4B6A96B3.4060803@denx.de> <4B6AFC6C.9060809@freescale.com> <4B6C178B.4080802@denx.de> Message-ID: <4B6C4CB4.6000400@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Stefano Babic wrote: > Scott Wood wrote: > >> How about adding additional I/O accessors that do native endian accesses >> instead of specified endian? > > Hi Scott, > > I confess I have thought to add this kind of abstraction, too. However, > this is probably overkilling for the purpose of this patch. > > I think if we need another general way to manage endianess, it should be > better done in another patch. Sure, it would be a separate patch -- but I suspect this driver isn't the only time we'll run into this. -Scott