linux-kernel - Re: ioread32 endianess.

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Date:	Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:04:50 -0500
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ioread32 endianess.

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 06:36:05PM +0300, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> May I ask you, guys, if ioread32 and his friends should treat the data
> as host-endian or bus-endian? E.g, should the data read from PCI on a
> big-endian host be byte swapped or not?
>

It should be in bus-endian. This is why ioreadXbe() exist.

Cheers,
	Kyle
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