> I am using 8250 console and wish to use the 8250_early as well. > > I encounter endianess problem while using this driver for mmio32. > > The problem is since my serial peripheral like my cpu is in BIG endian. > > Driver through serial_in/serial_out uses readl/writel from asm-generic/io.h. > > These macros assume peripheral is always in LITTLE endian. > > Therefore all data needs a swab. > > In 8250 driver I can register replacement for default serial_in/serial_out and workaround the problem. > In 8250_early I had no choice but to change code with additional swab to workaround the problem. > > I am looking for proper solution so it can be added to upstream. > I got several ideas if interest arise. Given they are all byte registers so how can they need swapping ? They are merely 3 further bytes offset. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
