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.
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Stefan Richter
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