Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932085AbVKTVmN (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:42:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932084AbVKTVmN (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:42:13 -0500 Received: from s0003.shadowconnect.net ([213.239.201.226]:945 "EHLO mail.shadowconnect.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932082AbVKTVmN (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:42:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4380EDB1.1080308@shadowconnect.com> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:42:09 +0100 From: Markus Lidel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] I2O: SPARC fixes References: <437E7ADB.5080200@shadowconnect.com> <20051118.172230.126076770.davem@davemloft.net> <1132371039.5238.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051118.203707.129707514.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20051118.203707.129707514.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1532 Lines: 41 Hi... David S. Miller wrote: > From: Alan Cox > Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 03:30:39 +0000 >>On Gwe, 2005-11-18 at 17:22 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: >>>Ho hum, I guess keep it a config option for now until we find a >>>way to auto-detect this reliably. >>The notify functionality is mandatory. You are seeing the same cards >>fail on sparc but work on x86. This sounds to me a lot more like an >>unfound endian bug that needs fixing than a real lack of support > That's very possible, but it also could be that the cards > that fail only on Sparc have Sun forth firmware on them, > which would thus only load firmware on Sparc boxes. > I still think the endianness theory is more likely, however. > Perhaps the I2O datastructures should be endian annotated > and then pushed through sparse. :-) Sounds good to me. Could i then find out if some BE<=>LE issues are still left? If so, is there a document which describes how it is done, or at least has a driver added it already? Bye... ------------------------------------------ Markus Lidel (Senior IT Consultant) Shadow Connect GmbH Carl-Reisch-Weg 12 D-86381 Krumbach Germany Phone: +49 82 82/99 51-0 Fax: +49 82 82/99 51-11 E-Mail: Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com URL: http://www.shadowconnect.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/