Re: iomapping a big endian area

[David Vrabel]

James Bottomley wrote:
> so can you provide an example of a BE bus (or device) used on a LE
> platform that would actually benefit from this abstraction?

The Network Processing Engines in the Intel IXP425 are big-endian and
its XScale core may be run in little-endian mode. There's a bunch of
gotchas related to running in little-endian mode so you typically run
the IXP425 in big-endian mode, though.

David Vrabel
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