On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:22:03PM +0200, Eliezer Tamir wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 18:05 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > This is not a driver issue. > > > Unfortunately, the firmware code is different for LE and BE machines. > > > We had issues with the BE firmware that appear to be resolved. > > > Hopefully, the next version will have both. > > > > If the firmware is big it might be better to just add the necessary > > conversions to the driver and always use BE. Endian conversions > > tend to be very cheap. > > For a given architecture, only the right version of the microcode is > compiled, so the binary only contains one copy of the microcode.
But we still have source code bloat. drivers/net already has too much binary gibberish in hex; no need to add to it unnecessarily. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
