On 10/30/2011 18:34, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
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> no, but it will make live a lot easier, because address and interrupts don't
> need to be probed by the driver. Right now interrupts are on my todo, since
> there is some weirdness between guiness and fullhouse boxes...
It wouldn't be an SGI machine if it didn't implement something weird or just
plain backwards...
> it still needs something to setup the PCI bus on the card and issue
> the probing. The problem with the Tulip Phobos cards is, that they
> messed up the endianess, so that none of the Linux Tulip drivers will
> work out of the box...
A.k.a., Tulip (and possibly ThunderLAN) assume little-endian, when we're
talking big-endian archs here. Interesting. Simple fix, as in defining a
few driver structures with little- and big-endian versions (if they're doing
something like packing bits or using bitfields)? Or is it more complex than
that?
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Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@gentoo.org
4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28
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