Re: [PATCH v2] GIO bus support for SGI IP22/28
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From: Joshua Kinard <hidden>
Date: 2011-10-31 08:04:17
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On 10/30/2011 18:34, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
no, but it will make live a lot easier, because address and interrupts don't need to be probed by the driver. Right now interrupts are on my todo, since there is some weirdness between guiness and fullhouse boxes...
It wouldn't be an SGI machine if it didn't implement something weird or just plain backwards...
it still needs something to setup the PCI bus on the card and issue the probing. The problem with the Tulip Phobos cards is, that they messed up the endianess, so that none of the Linux Tulip drivers will work out of the box...
A.k.a., Tulip (and possibly ThunderLAN) assume little-endian, when we're talking big-endian archs here. Interesting. Simple fix, as in defining a few driver structures with little- and big-endian versions (if they're doing something like packing bits or using bitfields)? Or is it more complex than that? -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS kumba@gentoo.org 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic