netdev - Re: [PATCH][BNX2X] round three

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Message-ID: <1192546857.29746.182.camel@eliezer>
Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:00:57 +0200
From:	"Eliezer Tamir" <eliezert@...adcom.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	andi@...stfloor.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org,
	mchan@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][BNX2X] round three

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:38 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Eliezer Tamir" <eliezert@...adcom.com>
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:27:29 +0200
> 
> > Unfortunately, the firmware code is different for LE and BE machines.
> > We had issues with the BE firmware that appear to be resolved.
> > Hopefully, the next version will have both.
> 
> If this means we get two copies of the firmware, this should be
> rethought.  The space cost of the firmware (both in terms of source
> code size and object code size) is already enormous.
> 
> I would definitely prefer if there were only little-endian firmware,
> and the driver uses "cpu_to_le32()" and friends to access chip shared
> data structures.

OK. Then that's what we will do.


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