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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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