Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934766AbXEHIs4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 04:48:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934732AbXEHIsz (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 04:48:55 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.227]:4947 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934710AbXEHIsx (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 04:48:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=S3D+W2J4lJ4TGCK4ZUVN5wz65+Nygw/nSn2Sce/OlN/vO3xmqJ0EcDt90Ka0oTkam7JR0FjijPawOzOysDAu1AW3eCt+UkcJJRV+u/DSEOlPu5cJ2DYD7ISdVUeWGVD/rYkrS1AbTVLq3RZenQVxGiQve3XeBg0jPBYxjZ1yJq8= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 12:48:51 +0400 From: "Alexey Zaytsev" To: "Tomasz Chmielewski" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Michael Jones" , "Krzysztof Halasa" In-Reply-To: <464034CF.20700@wpkg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <464034CF.20700@wpkg.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1119 Lines: 27 On 5/8/07, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Michael Jones wrote: > > >> +#ifndef __ARMEB__ > >> +#warning Little endian mode not supported > >> +#endif > > > > Personally I'm less fussed about WAN / LE support. Anyone with any > > sense will run ixp4xx boards doing such a specialised network > > operation as BE. Also, NSLU2-Linux can't test this functionality with > > our LE setup as we don't have this hardware on-board. You may just > > want to declare a depends on ARMEB in Kconfig (with or without OR > > (ARM || BROKEN) ) and have done with it - it's up to you. > > Christian Hohnstaedt's work did support LE though. > > Not all ixp4xx boards are by definition "doing such a specialised > network operation". > I was always curious, why do people want to run ixp4xx in LE mode? What are the benefits that overweight the obvious performance degradation? - 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/