* MIPS: Generic: Fix big endian CPUs on generic machine
@ 2017-01-23 14:08 Matt Redfearn
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From: Matt Redfearn @ 2017-01-23 14:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
From: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
commit a3078e593b74fe196e69f122f03ff0b32f652c53 upstream.
Big endian CPUs require SWAP_IO_SPACE enabled to swap accesses to little
endian peripherals.
Without this patch, big endian kernels fail to communicate with little
endian periperals, such as PCI devices, on QEMU and FPGA based
platforms.
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
Fixes: eed0eabd12ef ("MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support")
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15105/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ config MIPS_GENERIC
select PCI_DRIVERS_GENERIC
select PINCTRL
select SMP_UP if SMP
+ select SWAP_IO_SPACE
select SYS_HAS_CPU_MIPS32_R1
select SYS_HAS_CPU_MIPS32_R2
select SYS_HAS_CPU_MIPS32_R6
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from matt.redfearn@imgtec.com are
queue-4.9/mips-generic-fix-big-endian-cpus-on-generic-machine.patch
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