From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261274AbUKHWSx (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:18:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261275AbUKHWSv (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:18:51 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.hotpop.com ([38.113.3.51]:33426 "EHLO smtp-out.hotpop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261278AbUKHWSf (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:18:35 -0500 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Reply-To: adaplas@pol.net To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , adaplas@pol.net Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix IO access in rivafb Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 06:18:10 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: Linux Fbdev development list , Linux Kernel list , Guido Guenther References: <200411080521.iA85LbG6025914@hera.kernel.org> <200411081633.00645.adaplas@hotpop.com> <1099950617.3946.163.camel@gaston> In-Reply-To: <1099950617.3946.163.camel@gaston> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411090618.10418.adaplas@hotpop.com> X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 09 November 2004 05:50, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 16:33 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > Hmm, I'll ask Guido Guenther if he can test the changes. I think a > > different set of access macros for PPC might be a more preferrable > > solution. > > Well, I'd rather leave the registers Little Endian, but then, it will > clash with X which does put them into Big Endian mode, so that would > have to be restored all the time. > I also asked Guido if he can test the removal of the code that puts the hardware in big endian, although I told him that I prefer a new set of access macros. But I'll leave this decision to you people. Tony