From: David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
matthew@wil.cx, Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iomapping a big endian area
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:41:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42516034.7000802@arcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1112623143.5813.5.camel@mulgrave>
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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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-04-03 1:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-04-03 2:38 ` David S. Miller
2005-04-03 3:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-04-03 3:40 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-03 4:08 ` David S. Miller
2005-04-03 4:27 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-04 7:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-04 13:59 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-04 14:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-04 14:25 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-07 23:57 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-04-04 14:22 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-04 23:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-04 15:41 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2005-04-04 16:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-04-04 16:52 ` David Vrabel
2005-04-04 18:57 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-04 19:03 ` David S. Miller
2005-04-04 23:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-04 7:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-05 7:42 ` Russell King
2005-04-05 14:05 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-05 18:55 ` Russell King
2005-04-05 20:02 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-04-04 21:17 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-05 7:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-05 14:05 ` James Bottomley
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