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Re: [ECOS] Re: Improved big-endian support
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- Cc: Bob Koninckx <bob dot koninckx at o-3s dot com>,ecos-patches at sources dot redhat dot com,eCos Disuss <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 06:15:41 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: Improved big-endian support
- Organization: MLB Associates
- References: <1081459894.26832.6.camel@pc-002> <20040411120042.GA29447@lunn.ch>
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 06:00, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I have a CerfCube with this setup. I'll try to give it a look, but
it'll have to wait until later this week.
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Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates