Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix IO access in rivafb

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Nov 08 2004 - 04:57:50 EST


On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Monday 08 November 2004 13:57, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > You probably broke ppc versions here. The driver enables "big endian"
> > register access, but readw/writew/l functions do byteswap, which will
> > lead to incorrect results.
> >
> > The fix would be to probably just remove the code that puts the chip
> > registers into big endian mode, this isn't necessary nor a very good
> > idea actually.
> >
>
> How about this patch? This is almost the original macro in riva_hw.h,
> with the __force annotation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> diff -Nru a/drivers/video/riva/riva_hw.h b/drivers/video/riva/riva_hw.h
> --- a/drivers/video/riva/riva_hw.h 2004-11-06 12:42:19 +08:00
> +++ b/drivers/video/riva/riva_hw.h 2004-11-08 16:59:34 +08:00
> @@ -77,14 +77,18 @@
> #include <asm/io.h>
> #define NV_WR08(p,i,d) out_8(p+i, d)
> #define NV_RD08(p,i) in_8(p+i)
> +#define NV_WR16(p,i,d) (((volatile u16 __force *)(p))[(i)/2]=(d))
> +#define NV_RD16(p,i) (((volatile u16 __force *)(p))[(i)/2])
> +#define NV_WR32(p,i,d) (((volatile u32 __force *)(p))[(i)/4]=(d))
> +#define NV_RD32(p,i) (((volatile u32 __force *)(p))[(i)/4])
> #else
> #define NV_WR08(p,i,d) (writeb((d), (u8 __iomem *)(p) + (i)))
> #define NV_RD08(p,i) (readb((u8 __iomem *)(p) + (i)))
> -#endif
> #define NV_WR16(p,i,d) (writew((d), (u16 __iomem *)(p) + (i)/2))
> #define NV_RD16(p,i) (readw((u16 __iomem *)(p) + (i)/2))
> #define NV_WR32(p,i,d) (writel((d), (u32 __iomem *)(p) + (i)/4))
> #define NV_RD32(p,i) (readl((u32 __iomem *)(p) + (i)/4))
> +#endif
> #define VGA_WR08(p,i,d) NV_WR08(p,i,d)
> #define VGA_RD08(p,i) NV_RD08(p,i)

PPC also has nice {out,in}_be{16,32}() operations.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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