James Bottomley wrote: > so can you provide an example of a BE bus (or device) used on a LE > platform that would actually benefit from this abstraction?
The Network Processing Engines in the Intel IXP425 are big-endian and its XScale core may be run in little-endian mode. There's a bunch of gotchas related to running in little-endian mode so you typically run the IXP425 in big-endian mode, though. David Vrabel -- David Vrabel, Design Engineer Arcom, Clifton Road Tel: +44 (0)1223 411200 ext. 3233 Cambridge CB1 7EA, UK Web: http://www.arcom.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
