From: "Eliezer Tamir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:22:03 +0200
> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 18:05 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > This is not a driver issue. > > > 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 the firmware is big it might be better to just add the necessary > > conversions to the driver and always use BE. Endian conversions > > tend to be very cheap. > > For a given architecture, only the right version of the microcode is > compiled, so the binary only contains one copy of the microcode. But it still takes up source tree space. > The good news is that future versions of the device will not have this > issue. > The better news is that you only need the little-endian firmware even with these chips, simple assume little-endian for all chip shared data-structures and swap in the driver as we've explained to you. The cost for big-endian cpus is almost nothing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
