Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness

From: Anton Vorontsov
Date: Mon Feb 18 2008 - 12:38:03 EST


On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:30:11PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:18:47 +0100, Krzysztof Helt said:
> > I know two fb drivers which use endianess information (pm2fb and s3c2410fb).
> > Both resolve endianess at driver level. Actually, both handle it by setting special
> > bits so the graphics chip itself reorder bytes to transform foreign endianess.
> > I understand that this patch is for chips which cannot reorder bytes by themselves.
>
> Does anybody know of such a chip that's actually available in the wild?

LE Fujitsu mb86277 (MINT) on the BE MPC8360E.

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