On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:29:03AM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Michael Jones wrote: > > >>+#ifndef __ARMEB__ > >>+#warning Little endian mode not supported > >>+#endif > > > >Personally I'm less fussed about WAN / LE support. Anyone with any > >sense will run ixp4xx boards doing such a specialised network > >operation as BE. Also, NSLU2-Linux can't test this functionality with > >our LE setup as we don't have this hardware on-board. You may just > >want to declare a depends on ARMEB in Kconfig (with or without OR > >(ARM || BROKEN) ) and have done with it - it's up to you. > > Christian Hohnstaedt's work did support LE though. > > Not all ixp4xx boards are by definition "doing such a specialised > network operation". > > > Krzysztof, why is LE not supported? > > Do you need access to ixp4xx that starts in LE mode?
Not even trying to support LE is a clear merge blocker. Maybe Krzysztof can't actually test it himself, which is fine - but not even pretending to be endian clean is not what proper Linux drivers do. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
