On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:38 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

OK. Then that's what we will do.


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