Re: readl() / writel() on PowerPC

[David Schleef]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:22:55PM -0400, David T Eger wrote:
> 
> I have been working on a driver for a PowerPC PCI card/framebuffer device,
> and noticed that the standard readl() and writel() for this platform to
> byte swapping, since PowerPC runs big-endian.  However, at least for my
> hardware it's *really* not needed, and should just do a regular load
> store, as is done for CONFIG_APUS.  Looking at another driver
> (drivers/char/bttv.h) I notice that Mr. Metzler redefines his read and
> write routines for PowerPC as well to do simple loads and stores to IO
> regions.

I believe you are looking for __raw_readl(), __raw_writel().

dave...