From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@freescale.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 1/2] dt/bindings: Add the DT binding documentation for endianness
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 18:02:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140509170255.GR12304@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140509163243.GD16418@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
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On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 05:32:43PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 03:04:32AM +0100, Xiubo Li wrote:
> > {big,little}-endian{,-*}: these are boolean properties, if absent
> > meaning that the CPU and the Device are in the same endianness mode.
> That's not really true though. A device might usually be little-endian,
> regardless of the endianness of a CPU. Some vendors may integrate it as
> big-endian after a binding is added, and in the absence of a specified
> endianness a driver is likely to assume LE.
The default should be device specific rather than binding specific.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-09 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-09 2:04 [PATCHv4 0/2] add DT endianness binding support Xiubo Li
2014-05-09 2:04 ` [PATCHv4 1/2] dt/bindings: Add the DT binding documentation for endianness Xiubo Li
2014-05-09 16:32 ` Mark Rutland
2014-05-09 17:02 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2014-05-09 18:12 ` Mark Rutland
2014-05-09 2:04 ` [PATCHv4 2/2] regmap: add DT endianness binding support Xiubo Li
2014-05-09 16:47 ` Mark Rutland
2014-05-19 4:11 ` Li.Xiubo
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