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 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
