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Subject: Re: [PATCH REGRESSION FIX] dw_dmac: make driver's endianness configurable
From: viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: Hein Tibosch <hein_tibosch@yahoo.es>
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Hein Tibosch <hein_tibosch@yahoo.es> wrote:
> From: Hein Tibosch <hein_tibosch@yahoo.es>
>
> The dw_dmac was originally developed for avr32 to be used with the Synopsys
> DesignWare AHB DMA controller. Starting from 2.6.38, access to the device's i/o
> memory was done with the little-endian readl/writel functions(1)
>
> This broke the driver for the avr32 platform, because it needs big (native)
> endian accessors.
> This patch makes the endianness configurable using 'DW_DMAC_BIG_ENDIAN_IO',
> which will default be true for AVR32
>
> I submitted this patch before(2) but then waited for Andy to finish other
> changes to the same module(3).
>
> (1) https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/608211
> (2) https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/26/148
> (3) https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/21/173
>
> Signed-off-by: Hein Tibosch <hein_tibosch@yahoo.es>

Good.

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
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