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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:36:02 +0200
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36
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Alan Cox wrote:
>>Doing it with a loopback like interface at a higher level is the much 
>>saner operation - I understand why Martin removed the byteswap support, 
>>and agree with it 100%. It just didn't make any sense from a driver 
>>standpoint.
> 
> 
> We need to support partitioning on loopback devices in that case.
> 
> 
>>The only reason byteswapping exists is a rather historical one: Linux did 
>>the wrong thing for "insw/outsw" on big-endian architectures at one point 
>>(it byteswapped the data).
> 
> 
> A small number of other setups people wired the IDE the quick and easy
> way and their native format is indeed ass backwards - some M68K disks and
> the Tivo are examples of that. Interworking requires byteswapping and the
> ability to handle byteswapped partition tables.

I said it already multiple times Alan - please note that the byte-swapping code
for *physically* crosswired systems is *still there*. OK?

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