Re: iomapping a big endian area

From: David Vrabel
Date: Mon Apr 04 2005 - 11:58:53 EST


Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> But the Linux interface (on the CPU side of the PCI bus interface)
> doesn't care about the implimentation details in the XScale
> Core. That's why it's a complete subsystem, isolated from the
> ix86 by the PCI/Bus interface.

Hmmm.

*takes a long hard look at the IXP425 based board in front of him*

You're right. It's really is a PCI add-on card for an x86 platform.
All this time I've been thinking it was a standalone processor board.
Thanks for clearing that up!

David Vrabel

ps. The IXP425 is an ARM (Intel's XScale architecture) based processor.
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