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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:53:15 -0400 From: "Scott D. Davilla" <davilla@....com> To: Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@...il.com> Cc: jarod@...sonet.com, "Naren (Narendra) Sankar" <nsankar@...adcom.com>, "hancockrwd@...il.com" <hancockrwd@...il.com>, "jarod@...hat.com" <jarod@...hat.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "abraham.manu@...il.com" <abraham.manu@...il.com> Subject: Re: CrystalHD driver safe on big endian systems? >has the CrystalHD driver/library been tested on big endian systems? > >The (staging GIT tree) driver sources seem to use bitfields in C, is >this safe under different endianess? > >I'm currently testing two BCM70012 modules on a big-endian PowerPC >system and it fails changing the clock PLL to 175 MHz. This could be a >pair of defective modules, or the wrong bits being modified. >Unfortunately, I do not have a little endian system with mini-PCIe >available to do a A-B check. Not sure if anyone has done work testing under big endian platforms. From what I've seen in code, it looks definite little endian based and would need a look over regarding byte swap. Scott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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