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Date:   Wed, 22 Nov 2023 19:39:44 +0100
From:   Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] net: phy: aquantia: drop wrong endianness
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On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 10:23:47AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:53:39 +0100 Christian Marangi wrote:
> > So they DO get converted to the HOST endian on reading the firmware from
> > an nvmem cell or a filesystem?
> 
> They don't get converted when "reading from nvmem / fs". 
> They get converted when you do:
> 
> 		word = get_unaligned((const u32 *)(data + pos));
> 
> get_unaligned() is basically:
> 
> #if BIGENDIAN
> #define		get_unaligned	get_unaligned_be32
> #else
> #define		get_unaligned	get_unaligned_le32
> #endif
> 
> so you'll get different behavior here depending on the CPU.

Ugh... If that is true this is bad...

When get_unaligned was suggested, I checked if the thing was doing any
kind of conversion and from [1] I tought it was just getting the
pointer.

I can't find the entry where the thing is done. Is this some kind of
include magic with asm specific API?

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h#L22

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