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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@linaro.org>
Organization: Linaro Limited 
To: Hein Tibosch <hein_tibosch@yahoo.es>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dw_dmac: make driver endianness configurable
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:57:09 +0000
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On Thursday 30 August 2012, Hein Tibosch wrote:
> The dw_dmac was originally developed for avr32 to be used with the
> Synopsys DesignWare AHB DMA controller. After 2.6.38, device access was done
> with the little-endian readl/writel functions. This didn't work on the
> avr32 platform, because it needs native-endian (i.e. big-endian) accessors.
> This patch makes the endianness configurable using 'DW_DMAC_BIG_ENDIAN_IO',
> which will default be true for AVR32
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hein Tibosch <hein_tibosch@yahoo.es>

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