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
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