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From: Ed Vance <EdV@macrolink.com>
To: "'James L Peterson'" <peterson@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: RE: PowerPC Linux and PCI
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:16:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11E89240C407D311958800A0C9ACF7D13A77B0@EXCHANGE> (raw)

James L Peterson wrote: 
> 
> "David S. Miller" wrote:
> > 
> > An important point to mention is that big endian systems need to do
> > byte twisting in the PCI controller for all the byte-lane issues to
> > work out properly.
> 
> What does this mean?  This suggests that PCI controller for
> big-endian systems are not interchangeable with PCI controllers
> for little-endian systems, because the controller itself does
> byte swapping (is that what you mean by "byte twisting"?)

I think David's reference is to the system's PCI subsystem/interface rather
than to the PCI cards plugged into it.

Ed Vance

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             reply	other threads:[~2002-04-23 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-23 17:16 Ed Vance [this message]
2002-04-24  3:59 ` David S. Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-24 16:45 Ed Vance
     [not found] <OF8A238806.80D1511C-ON87256B75.00773B75@boulder.ibm.com>
     [not found] ` <20020307220318.GA4664@haven>
2002-04-19 21:37   ` James L Peterson
2002-04-19 21:38     ` David S. Miller
2002-04-20  9:10       ` Paul Mackerras
2002-04-22 14:14         ` James L Peterson
2002-04-23  8:00           ` Paul Mackerras
2002-04-23  8:14             ` David S. Miller
2002-04-23 16:54               ` James L Peterson
2002-04-23 17:53             ` James L Peterson

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