Re: iomapping a big endian area

[Randy.Dunlap]

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 17:50 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > I disagree. The driver will never "know" ...
>
>
> ? the driver has to know.  Look at the 53c700 to see exactly how awful
> it is.  This beast has byte and word registers.  When used BE, all the
> byte registers alter their position (to both inb and readb).
>
>
> > I don't think it's sane. You know that your device is BE or LE and use
> > the appropriate interface. "native" doesn't make sense to me in this
> > context.
>
>
> Well ... it's like this. Native means "pass through without swapping"
> and has an easy implementation on both BE and LE platforms.  Logically
> io{read,write}{16,32}be would have to do byte swaps on LE platforms.
> Being lazy, I'm opposed to doing the work if there's no actual use for
> it, so can you provide an example of a BE bus (or device) used on a LE
> platform that would actually benefit from this abstraction?

I would probably spell "native" as "noswap".
"native" just doesn't convey enough specific meaning...

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~Randy
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