Re: Si3112 S-ATA bug preventing use of udma5.

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Fri Apr 23 2004 - 23:36:24 EST


On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 12:30, Roland Dreier wrote:

> Finally, siimage.c does
>
> hwif->OUTW(speedt, addr);
>
> and speedt is a u32 -- however, as you say, the compiler should just
> cast speedt down to a u16. What am I missing?

This is just a normal function call, there should be nothing special,
so either you are missing something else or you are suffering from
incorrectly compiled code... I'm no x86 expert so I can't help
analyzing the codegen here though.

Ben.


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