Re: ppc LE questions (seeking help hand info pointers)

From
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date
2001-09-21 07:22:00
Reply to
Timothy A. Seufert, 2001-09-21
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Timothy A. Seufert wrote:
At 4:19 PM -0400 9/20/01, Mark Salisbury wrote:
quoted
Holger Bettag wrote:
(Specifically: in order to support PPC-LE, all the hardware drivers
needed for your platform will need to be rewritten to be aware of
munging.  The alternative is to make the kernel run in regular BE
But PCI drivers already use readl() and friends, so the differences can be
hidden there? => no driver changes.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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