Subject: Re: [PATCH] add big endian version of ld_/st_ IO access macros and convert main 8xx code to use it

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:55:40 +1000

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 20:42 -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> On Sep 7, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > I'm not fan of the approach. You should use in_/out_ macros for IOs. If
> > you don't need eieio on 8xx , then just #ifdef it out of the
> > implementation of these.
> 
> Yeah, #ifdef :-)  That patch wouldn't go anywhere (well,
> to /dev/null perhaps).

Heh, it can be done properly: use an eieio() macro/inline and have
_that_ be #ifdef'ed to nothing on 8xx...

> We can just use the in_/out_ macros that are there.  The eieio
> doesn't hurt anything on the 8xx.

Ok, in that case, I don't see any problem.

Ben.