From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: adaplas@pol.net
Cc: Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix IO access in rivafb
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:13:01 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411081211270.2301@ppc970.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411090402.22696.adaplas@hotpop.com>
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
>
> In big endian machines, the read*/write* accessors do a byteswap for an
> inherently little endian PCI bus. However, rivafb puts the hardwire in big
> endian register access, thus the byteswap is not needed. So, instead of
> read*/write*, use __raw_read*/__raw_write*.
This fix should make the #ifdef CONFIG_PCC entirely superfluous afaik.
The thing is, once riva does its HW accesses right, the special cases just
go away. There's a reason we have abstractions..
Does anybody have the hardware to test with?
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-08 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-11-08 5:57 ` [PATCH] fbdev: Fix IO access in rivafb Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-08 8:33 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-08 21:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-08 22:18 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-08 9:06 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-08 9:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-11-08 15:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-08 20:02 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-08 20:13 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2004-11-08 22:08 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-08 22:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-12 12:51 ` Guido Guenther
2004-11-12 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-12 19:18 ` Guido Guenther
2004-11-12 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-13 12:57 ` Guido Guenther
2004-11-13 1:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-13 11:22 ` Guido Guenther
2004-11-13 12:00 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-13 13:02 ` Guido Guenther
2004-11-13 18:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-13 21:29 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-13 22:54 ` Guido Guenther
2004-11-13 23:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-13 23:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-13 12:20 ` Yasushi SHOJI
2004-11-19 1:48 ` readl/writel: swap or not to swap (was: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix IO access in rivafb) Yasushi SHOJI
2004-11-19 4:09 ` readl/writel: swap or not to swap Jeff Garzik
2004-11-19 7:24 ` Yasushi SHOJI
2004-11-08 21:52 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix IO access in rivafb Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-08 23:07 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-11-13 23:22 ` Guido Guenther
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