Re: PowerPC Linux and PCI

James L Peterson (peterson@austin.ibm.com)
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:54:02 -0500


What does this mean? This suggests that PCI controller for
big-endian systems are not interchangable with PCI controllers
for little-endian systems, because the controller itself does
byte swapping (is that what you mean by "byte twisting"?)

jim

"David S. Miller" wrote:

> An important point to mention is that big endian systems need to do
> byte twisting in the PCI controller for all the byte-lane issues to
> work out properly.
>

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