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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:43:42 +0100 From: Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@...gramm.de> To: linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, adaplas@...il.com, benh@...nel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>, Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com> Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness Paul Mackerras schrieb: > Andrew Morton writes: > >> Bizarrely, the original author of the patch (Anton) has fallen off the cc. >> Could whoever did that please thwap himself? >> >> Anyway, my head is now officially spinning. Did anyone actually have a >> reason why we shouldn't proceed with Anton's patch? > > I was wondering if it would be sufficient to provide alternative > versions of fb_readl, fb_writel etc. that do byte-swapping. That > would mean that all framebuffers would have to have the same > endianness, but that would suffice for embedded systems such as > Anton's and would end up a lot simpler IMHO. Yes. At least the affected PowerPC platforms can do byte-swapping on the fly, so this should be sufficient and without performance penalty, AFAICS. Regards, Clemens -- 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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