Re: iomapping a big endian area

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

> > 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...

But that implies that the driver has to know that the bus and the device
and the CPU are on the same byte endian etc.... that is rather specific,
and if they all know, then they can also just use the correct "be" or
"le" ... I really see no point in "native" abstraction.

Ben.


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