Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:05:30 PST, Andrew Morton said:

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:27:54 +0100 Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de
wrote:

quoted

That's not an issue in my case. The SM50x can be connected to
either an PCI or some Local/CPU-whateverbus IF.
I.e. on the MPC85xx PowerPC, PCI and LocalBus are separate bussses.
If the sm501 is attached to the MPC85xx' PCI like any other video card,
the PCI config-space is can be accessed as usual, whereas the framebuffer
memory area is byte-swapped compared to other common video cards.

Anyway, my head is now officially spinning.  Did anyone actually have a
reason why we shouldn't proceed with Anton's patch?

Clemens answered my question regarding the real-life existence of hardware
that would benefit.  I'd say if Anton's patch works on Clemens' hardware and
otherwise passes review, we should proceed...

On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 19:47 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:05:30 PST, Andrew Morton said:

quoted

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:27:54 +0100 Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de
wrote:

quoted

That's not an issue in my case. The SM50x can be connected to
either an PCI or some Local/CPU-whateverbus IF.
I.e. on the MPC85xx PowerPC, PCI and LocalBus are separate bussses.
If the sm501 is attached to the MPC85xx' PCI like any other video card,
the PCI config-space is can be accessed as usual, whereas the framebuffer
memory area is byte-swapped compared to other common video cards.

quoted

Anyway, my head is now officially spinning.  Did anyone actually have a
reason why we shouldn't proceed with Anton's patch?

Clemens answered my question regarding the real-life existence of hardware
that would benefit.  I'd say if Anton's patch works on Clemens' hardware and
otherwise passes review, we should proceed...

No objection here neither.

Ben.