linux-kernel - Re: CrystalHD driver safe on big endian systems?

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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
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