James L Peterson wrote:
>
> "David S. Miller" wrote:
> >
> > An important point to mention is that big endian systems need to do
> > byte twisting in the PCI controller for all the byte-lane issues to
> > work out properly.
>
> What does this mean? This suggests that PCI controller for
> big-endian systems are not interchangeable with PCI controllers
> for little-endian systems, because the controller itself does
> byte swapping (is that what you mean by "byte twisting"?)
I think David's reference is to the system's PCI subsystem/interface rather
than to the PCI cards plugged into it.
Ed Vance
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