Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 12:03:04 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: dvrabel@arcom.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, matthew@wil.cx,
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Subject: Re: iomapping a big endian area
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On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:57:59 -0500
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:41 +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> > The Network Processing Engines in the Intel IXP425 are big-endian and
> > its XScale core may be run in little-endian mode. There's a bunch of
> > gotchas related to running in little-endian mode so you typically run
> > the IXP425 in big-endian mode, though.
> 
> Yes, based on feedback from Mips people and others pointing out the
> existence of the motorola rapidio bus, which is BE, I give in and agree
> that the io{read,write}{16,32}be are the way to go.
> 
> How does the attached look?

This looks fine to me.
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