Am 06.07.2011 um 09:09 schrieb Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de>: > Device code some times needs to access physical memory and does that > through the ld./st._phys functions. However, these are the exact same > functions that the CPU uses to access memory, which means they will > be endianness swapped depending on the target CPU. > > However, devices don't know about the CPU's endianness, but instead > access memory directly using their own interface to the memory bus, > so they need some way to read data with their native endianness. > > This patch adds _le and _be functions to ld./st._phys.
Blue, mind to apply at least this one if there are no concerns? The API it adds makes sense IMHO and I don't want to hold up the megasas patch due to it ;). Alex >
