I have a big-endian MIPS32-based ASIC configured as follows: CONFIG_SWAP_IO_SPACE is not set mangle-port.h says: #define __swizzle_addr_b(port) ((port) ^ 3) #define __swizzle_addr_w(port) ((port) ^ 2) #define __swizzle_addr_l(port) (port) #define __swizzle_addr_q(port) (port) (copied from mach-ip32/mangle-port.h) The PCI drivers use {read,write}[bwl]. PCI byte and word (16-bit) accesses are address-swizzled but not endian-swapped. Since 32-bit accesses are the common case, this generates the most efficient code. The MTD drivers (in my case, physmap) use __raw_{read,write}[bwl]. This is a problem because on MIPS, the __raw functions still enable address swizzling. I am submitting a patch to disable address swizzling for the __raw operations. There are currently three other MIPS platforms using address swizzling: txx9/jmr3927 only uses the swizzle facility to make the rtc-ds1742 driver work. This driver uses standard (non-__raw) readb() operations, which will continue to function normally with my patch in place. sgi-ip27 swizzles 16-bit PCI word addresses but not byte addresses. It only registers a single platform_device (rtc-m48t35) which has no __raw operations. sgi-ip32 swizzles both 16-bit and 8-bit PCI addresses. It registers the following platform_device's: 8250 - uses standard read/write operations meth - uses volatile struct accesses only sgio2audio - uses readq/writeq sgi_btns - uses readq/writeq rtc_cmos - uses inb_p/outb_p Based on this information, I do not believe that my change will have an adverse impact on any other systems.