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

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:05:30 PST, Andrew Morton said:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:27:54 +0100 Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@xxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> > That's not an issue in my case. The SM50x can be connected to
> > either an PCI or some Local/CPU-whateverbus IF.
> > I.e. on the MPC85xx PowerPC, PCI and LocalBus are separate bussses.
> > If the sm501 is attached to the MPC85xx' PCI like any other video card,
> > the PCI config-space is can be accessed as usual, whereas the framebuffer
> > memory area is byte-swapped compared to other common video cards.

> Anyway, my head is now officially spinning.  Did anyone actually have a
> reason why we shouldn't proceed with Anton's patch?

Clemens answered my question regarding the real-life existence of hardware
that would benefit.  I'd say if Anton's patch works on Clemens' hardware and
otherwise passes review, we should proceed...

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