On Thursday 12 May 2016 14:43:43 Felipe Balbi wrote:
> >> How many more drivers will we have to 'fix' like this ?
> >
> > Endianess problems will keep coming up, and we have hundreds or thousands
> > of drivers that are written with a particular design in mind that could
> > be wrong as soon as som
Hi,
(Arnd, you didn't Cc dwc2's maintainer. I'm also not part of TI anymore)
Arnd Bergmann writes:
> On Thursday 12 May 2016 14:25:49 Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> > {
>> > u32 value = __raw_readl(addr);
>> >
>> > - /* In order to preserve endianness __raw_* operation is used.
>> > There
On Thursday 12 May 2016 14:25:49 Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > {
> > u32 value = __raw_readl(addr);
> >
> > - /* In order to preserve endianness __raw_* operation is used.
> > Therefore
> > - * a barrier is needed to ensure IO access is not re-ordered across
> > + /* in order to pr
Hi,
Arnd Bergmann writes:
> A patch that went into Linux-4.4 to fix big-endian mode on a Lantiq
> MIPS system unfortunately broke big-endian operation on PowerPC
> APM82181 as reported by Christian Lamparter, and likely other
> systems.
>
> It actually introduced multiple issues:
>
> - it broke
A patch that went into Linux-4.4 to fix big-endian mode on a Lantiq
MIPS system unfortunately broke big-endian operation on PowerPC
APM82181 as reported by Christian Lamparter, and likely other
systems.
It actually introduced multiple issues:
- it broke big-endian ARM kernels: any machine that wa
