On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:10:22PM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > ralf> Well, talk to it's developers before it's too late. Or as it > ralf> has already happened for some hardware I think we should simply > ralf> go with your suggestion and make all those functions vectors. > > For me, currently it happens only in big endian and I can live happy > in a little endian world. I will create new patch when I REALLY need > it. Thank you. Right now the Linux philosophy is that we don't provide any swapping facility for I/O port accesses. Some hardware supports byteswapping for I/O port and memory access, others must do that in software't, so big endian systems can set CONFIG_SWAP_IO_SPACE to enable swapping for I/O ports and memory. In the past there has been quite some confusion about this and how to use this properly in drivers ... Ralf
