On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 00:27, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 00:41, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> >
> >> Just to check off the obvious, are you running a recent kernel with (I
> >> assume framebuffer) ? It could be that the default might have changed to
> >> configure the apertures to be bigendian.
> >
> > Changed ? The apertures have always been BE on PPC ...
> 
> Really ? Both the register and the framebuffer apertures ?
> 
> The reason I am asking as ati driver has some code to invert the 
> endianness for writing Xv data to the framebuffer.

No, only framebuffer, and we used, iirc, to switch the card's swapper
off when writing Xv data (maybe we just swap the data nowadays ? would
be pretty suboptimal...)

Ben.




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