Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:29:03AM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Michael Jones wrote:
> 
> >>+#ifndef __ARMEB__
> >>+#warning Little endian mode not supported
> >>+#endif
> >
> >Personally I'm less fussed about WAN / LE support. Anyone with any  
> >sense will run ixp4xx boards doing such a specialised network  
> >operation as BE. Also, NSLU2-Linux can't test this functionality with  
> >our LE setup as we don't have this hardware on-board. You may just  
> >want to declare a depends on ARMEB in Kconfig (with or without OR  
> >(ARM || BROKEN) ) and have done with it - it's up to you.
> 
> Christian Hohnstaedt's work did support LE though.
> 
> Not all ixp4xx boards are by definition "doing such a specialised 
> network operation".
> 
> 
> Krzysztof, why is LE not supported?
> 
> Do you need access to ixp4xx that starts in LE mode?

Not even trying to support LE is a clear merge blocker.  Maybe Krzysztof
can't actually test it himself, which is fine - but not even pretending
to be endian clean is not what proper Linux drivers do.
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