Re: IDE driver problem

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:11:54PM +0800, Liu Hongming (Alan) wrote:
> > I have found out where the problem is. Since my hardware has
> > endian issue, fs/partition/msdos.c could not handle partition table
> > correctly. I have changed a little(still having much to change),and it
> > really works now.
>
> I'm not sure what you call endian issue here.  The PC style partition
> table code we've used for years on big endian systems without problems.

I guess his hardware has a byteswapped IDE bus, like on Atari, Q40/Q60 and
Tivo.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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