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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] leds: bcm63x8: improve read and write functions
From:   =?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro_Fern=C3=A1ndez_Rojas?= <noltari@gmail.com>
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Date:   Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:54:29 +0100
Cc:     Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
        Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org,
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To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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Hi Florian,

> El 24 feb 2021, a las 16:45, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> =
escribi=C3=B3:
>=20
>=20
>=20
> On 2/24/2021 2:11 AM, =C3=81lvaro Fern=C3=A1ndez Rojas wrote:
>> This code is proven to work in BMIPS BE/LE and ARM BE/LE.
>> See bcm2835-rng and bcmgenet.c:
>> =
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3b9cdafb5358eb9f3790de2f728f765fef1=
00731/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c#L42-L60
>> =
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3b9cdafb5358eb9f3790de2f728f765fef1=
00731/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c#L71-L88
>=20
> What is the motivation for doing this? bcm2835-rng and bcmgenet are =
used
> across MIPS and ARM platforms therefore they need to be compatible =
with
> both, but these two LEDs drivers are super specialized, are you =
working
> on porting the 6328 LED driver to the newer ARM-based DSL SoCs such as
> 63138 and 63148?

I just wanted to have all bmips drivers in line (at least regarding =
read/write).
If I remember correctly someone told me that this controller was also =
present on some little endian SoCs, but you can confirm that :).
Unfortunately I haven=E2=80=99t got any devices with ARM-based DSL SoCs, =
so the answer is no.

> --=20
> Florian

Best regards,
=C3=81lvaro.=