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Re: Improved big-endian support
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- To: Bob Koninckx <bob dot koninckx at o-3s dot com>
- Cc: ecos-patches at sources dot redhat dot com,eCos Disuss <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:00:42 +0200
- Subject: Re: Improved big-endian support
- References: <1081459894.26832.6.camel@pc-002>
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:31:35PM +0200, Bob Koninckx wrote:
> Using the cs8900a with big endian machines is not as much a problem with
> endianness as it is with byte swapping, which can be done by hardware or
> software. The attached patch takes that into account. Tested on powerpc.
> I suppose it should be alright on little endian machines as well, I do
> not have the hardware to test it tough :-)
Does anybody have a little endian system with an cs9800a Ethernet
device? Could somebody test this please on such a system.
Thanks
Andrew