Re: ieee1394 fixed soon...

Daniel Berlin writes:
 > Dave, I already took care of most of these. If you remove the selfid
 > bitfields, the set of patches i sent to the linux1394 list recently to
 > make it work on a powerbook g3 should work fine on other big-endian
 > architectures.

Thanks, I was not aware of these patches, I'll check them out.

 > I also have a set of endian fixes for the sbp-2 driver that james goodwin
 > (author of the sbp-2 stuff) is working on integrating, mainly it involves
 > removal of all of the bitfields, which were screwing up non-LE
 > architectures.
 >
 > I happily use my two 45 gig firewire drives under LinuxPPC, and have been
 > for weeks.

It won't work on sparc64 until it is fixed to not use
virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt and uses the PCI dma interfaces instead.
I have one of these drives as well :-)

The video1394 driver needs the same kind of work.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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