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List:       linuxppc64-dev
Subject:    Fw: ppc64 drivers???
From:       linas () austin ! ibm ! com (linas at austin ! ibm ! com)
Date:       2003-07-10 17:11:40
Message-ID: 20030710121140.A41788 () forte ! austin ! ibm ! com
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:46:48AM -0700, Raghava Vatsavayi wrote:
>
> 1) I thought ppc64 was a big endian machine.
>    But ppc64 machine recognises one of my hardware
>    devices only if settings on device are little
>    endian  mode only. correct me if I am wrong??

What device?
The arch/ppc64 code performs byte swapping so that it can talk to
little-endian devices.  Sometimes, this code has bugs: for example,
until recently, there were some byte-swapping bugs for IDE disks
in the ppc64 2.4 kernel.

--linas

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