Thread (33 messages) 33 messages, 7 authors, 2008-03-06

Re: [PATCH 1/2] firewire: endianess fix

From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date: 2008-03-01 12:38:15
Also in: linuxppc-dev, sparclinux

On 23 Feb, I wrote:
quoted
This needs to be tested on different big endian PCs, if possible with
the Apple Uninorth FireWire controller and other types of controllers.
I tested it myself now with VT6306 on PPC32.
it should be triggered by replacing
	&fw_high_memory_region
by
	&fw_private_region
in drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c and testing with any SBP-2 device
This indeed demonstrates the fix.  Any IO to SBP-2 devices fails with
timeouts.  Just removing the posted write enable bit in fw-ohci wasn't
sufficient to catch it though.  Maybe the controller has write posting
enabled by default.

However, this endianess bug was low-profile because there are currently
no kernelspace or userspace drivers for the firewire stack which need to
respond in split transactions.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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