[U-Boot] [PATCH][v2] driver/ifc:Change accessor function to take care of endianness

[York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>]

On 01/21/2014 09:34 AM, York Sun wrote:
> On 01/21/2014 09:29 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
>> On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 10:14 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>> Dear York,
>>>
>>> In message <F1D691E4-180A-4A2D-BE07-812547D46419@freescale.com> you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On second thought, I also think we should avoid solutions where the
>>>>> BE/LE test has to be done for each and every I/O accessor call again
>>>>> and again.  We should rather do this just once, and for example set
>>>>> function pointers as needed (hoping that this driver will only be
>>>>> needed after relocation, so we have writable data segment).
>>>>
>>>> I like the idea of setting it just once, but I don't see how to
>>>> implement it. A pointer is probably not the solution, because we do need
>>>> some drivers before relocation.
>>>
>>> "some drivers before relocation" - how many which are these?
> 
> IFC, DDR, I2C (only 32-bit controller is concerned), GUT
> 
>>>
>>> Also, is it really necessary to make the decision about endianess at
>>> runtime?  We don't have multi-board support in U-Boot yet, so when you
>>> build an image you know exactly which SoC you are building for, so you
>>> should be able to make the selection at compile time?
>>
>> It is done at compile time in this patch.
>>
> 
> No. It is not necessary to do it at run time. It would be easier to use a switch
> to decide at compiling time. It does involve many changes to implement the wrapper.
> 

Acked-by: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>

Do we all agree on this patch?

York