asm/io.h; why does writel() write an le32 on ppc?

Sorry to be daft, but why does writel() write an le32 on the ppc?

in asm/io.h it uses out_le32, unless the machine is an APUS, in which
case it just writes big endian...

(is PCI defined as little endian?)

-brad


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