> On 03/24/2010 05:33 PM, Paul Brook wrote: > >> But now there is a bigger problem, how to pass the property to the > >> device. It's not fair to require the user to remember to set it. > > > > It should not be a property of the device. All devices have a native > > endianness (for PCI this is little-endian), and the intermediate > > busses/interconnects should determine whether byteswapping occurs. > > Right, the byte swapping needs to happen at the bus level which requires > that the PCI regions use a different callback mechanism (and don't > register directly with the cpu).
Not necessarily a different callback mechanism, but probably a different registration mechanism. Paul
