On 10/30/2011 18:34, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > > no, but it will make live a lot easier, because address and interrupts don't > need to be probed by the driver. Right now interrupts are on my todo, since > there is some weirdness between guiness and fullhouse boxes... It wouldn't be an SGI machine if it didn't implement something weird or just plain backwards... > it still needs something to setup the PCI bus on the card and issue > the probing. The problem with the Tulip Phobos cards is, that they > messed up the endianess, so that none of the Linux Tulip drivers will > work out of the box... A.k.a., Tulip (and possibly ThunderLAN) assume little-endian, when we're talking big-endian archs here. Interesting. Simple fix, as in defining a few driver structures with little- and big-endian versions (if they're doing something like packing bits or using bitfields)? Or is it more complex than that? -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS kumba@xxxxxxxxxx 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
