From: "Eliezer Tamir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:27:29 +0200
> 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 this means we get two copies of the firmware, this should be rethought. The space cost of the firmware (both in terms of source code size and object code size) is already enormous. I would definitely prefer if there were only little-endian firmware, and the driver uses "cpu_to_le32()" and friends to access chip shared data structures. Most cpus have endian swapping loads and stores, accessible via cpu_to_le32p() and similar interfaces, so the cost on big-endian of doing things this way is very close to zero. - 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
