Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758325AbYBRRbe (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:31:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754866AbYBRRbY (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:31:24 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:45144 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751379AbYBRRbW (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:31:22 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Krzysztof Helt Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Geert Uytterhoeven , avorontsov@ru.mvista.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adaplas@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:18:47 +0100." <20080218081847.e9e65f2f.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20080205154432.GA8749@localhost.localdomain> <20080214224942.a0cb6218.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080215164542.GB16810@localhost.localdomain> <20080218081847.e9e65f2f.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1203355811_2991P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:30:11 -0500 Message-ID: <19805.1203355811@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1163 Lines: 30 --==_Exmh_1203355811_2991P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:18:47 +0100, Krzysztof Helt said: > I know two fb drivers which use endianess information (pm2fb and s3c2410fb). > Both resolve endianess at driver level. Actually, both handle it by setting special > bits so the graphics chip itself reorder bytes to transform foreign endianess. > I understand that this patch is for chips which cannot reorder bytes by themselves. Does anybody know of such a chip that's actually available in the wild? Or are we writing drivers for speculative possible chips? --==_Exmh_1203355811_2991P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHucCjcC3lWbTT17ARAs3WAJsF9CsHmgfsLvqldWPilbhoVFS5NACfTFrJ i5E2PGuWzLogM8fqDx25xCo= =be6Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1203355811_2991P-- -- 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/