On 2/27/07, Kyle McMartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:20:21AM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> PCI is always little endian, unless it's not. In which case you're probably
PCI is always LE, but the host may be different. If you read some data
from a PCI device
on a LE host,
On 2/27/07, Kyle McMartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
__raw_(read|write){b,w,l} are also old style accessors. They always operate
in host endianness.
Are there any "new style" accessors operating in host endianness?
Haavard
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:20:21AM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> PCI is always little endian, unless it's not. In which case you're probably
> dealing with a graphics card which likely has some kind of palindromic
> register which you can read and write to set the endianness of the host
> interface
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:31:20PM +0300, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> Than how should one write a portable endian-independent driver? Should
> I wrap ioread32 with an le32_to_cpu?
>
PCI is always little endian, unless it's not. In which case you're probably
dealing with a graphics card which likely h
On 2/26/07, Kyle McMartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 06:36:05PM +0300, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> Hello.
>
> May I ask you, guys, if ioread32 and his friends should treat the data
> as host-endian or bus-endian? E.g, should the data read from PCI on a
> big-endian host be byt
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 06:36:05PM +0300, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> Hello.
>
> May I ask you, guys, if ioread32 and his friends should treat the data
> as host-endian or bus-endian? E.g, should the data read from PCI on a
> big-endian host be byte swapped or not?
>
It should be in bus-endian. This
Hello.
May I ask you, guys, if ioread32 and his friends should treat the data
as host-endian or bus-endian? E.g, should the data read from PCI on a
big-endian host be byte swapped or not?
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