Paul Mackerras schrieb:

Andrew Morton writes:

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Bizarrely, the original author of the patch (Anton) has fallen off the cc. 
Could whoever did that please thwap himself?

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

I was wondering if it would be sufficient to provide alternative
versions of fb_readl, fb_writel etc. that do byte-swapping.  That
would mean that all framebuffers would have to have the same
endianness, but that would suffice for embedded systems such as
Anton's and would end up a lot simpler IMHO.

Yes. At least the affected PowerPC platforms can do byte-swapping on
the fly, so this should be sufficient and without performance
penalty, AFAICS.

Regards,

Clemens