Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759209AbYBRRh6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:37:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752428AbYBRRhu (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:37:50 -0500 Received: from rtsoft3.corbina.net ([85.21.88.6]:27563 "EHLO buildserver.ru.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752261AbYBRRhu (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:37:50 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:37:45 +0300 From: Anton Vorontsov To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Krzysztof Helt , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Geert Uytterhoeven , 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 Message-ID: <20080218173745.GA25628@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com References: <20080205154432.GA8749@localhost.localdomain> <20080214224942.a0cb6218.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080215164542.GB16810@localhost.localdomain> <20080218081847.e9e65f2f.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> <19805.1203355811@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <19805.1203355811@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 942 Lines: 21 On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:30:11PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > 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? LE Fujitsu mb86277 (MINT) on the BE MPC8360E. -- Anton Vorontsov email: cbou@mail.ru backup email: ya-cbou@yandex.ru irc://irc.freenode.net/bd2 -- 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/