Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign
	endianness
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de>,
       linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adaplas@gmail.com,
       Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
       Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
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On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 19:47 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:05:30 PST, Andrew Morton said:
> > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:27:54 +0100 Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de
> > wrote:
> > > That's not an issue in my case. The SM50x can be connected to
> > > either an PCI or some Local/CPU-whateverbus IF.
> > > I.e. on the MPC85xx PowerPC, PCI and LocalBus are separate bussses.
> > > If the sm501 is attached to the MPC85xx' PCI like any other video card,
> > > the PCI config-space is can be accessed as usual, whereas the framebuffer
> > > memory area is byte-swapped compared to other common video cards.
> 
> > Anyway, my head is now officially spinning.  Did anyone actually have a
> > reason why we shouldn't proceed with Anton's patch?
> 
> Clemens answered my question regarding the real-life existence of hardware
> that would benefit.  I'd say if Anton's patch works on Clemens' hardware and
> otherwise passes review, we should proceed...

No objection here neither.

Ben.


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