Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Matthias Weisser,
>
> In message 
> <1248250473-12694-1-git-send-email-matthias.weis...@graf-syteco.de> you wrote:
>   
>> Volatile pointer usage caused lockup with arm-gcc 4.3.2
>> Using I/O accessor fixed that.
>>     
>
> Hm...
>
>   
>> -    return *(volatile u32*)addr;
>> +    return readl(addr);
>>     
>
> On big-endian systems like PowerPC, readl() is a byte-swapping
> (little-endian) input function, which means that your patch changes
> the byte order of all I/O operations.
>
>   
Yeah, that's why I left these alone when re-working this driver.  I 
don't know what the correct approach is when using memory-mapped devices 
that could in theory go on the local bus of any processor.  Most people 
I know would hook them up according to the native endianness.

regards,
Ben
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