On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Carsten,
I'm afraid Carsten may no longer be reachable, but I may try to help in
his stead.
> do you remember what your changes to drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_defs.h in
> the mips tree are supposed to help with?
It must have been the MIPS Technologies' Atlas development board which
has a SYM53C810A incorporated, even though the resulting changes are
specific to the board. There appears to have been some sort of confusion
about the semantics of i/o and mmio operations in mixed-endian
configurations, which for the MIPS port actually is currently being
resolved.
> sym53c8xx_defs.h is only used for the ncr53c8xx driver, which despite
> the name is only for NCR53c720 chips these days (supported on parisc,
> and eisa/mca). It has correct big endian support for parisc alrady.
I can verify whether the other driver operates correctly in the four
possible configurations with an Atlas board.
BTW, that SCSI_NCR_BIG_ENDIAN macro looks scary -- is the chip wired
incorrectly (i.e. with byte lanes swapped at PCI) or are i/o and/or mmio
operations simply broken for parisc?
> Also the patch duplicates your changelog and copyright entry that's
> in the file already.
It looks like some sort of a merging mistake.
Maciej
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