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From: David Hawkins <dwh@ovro•caltech.edu>
To: Mark Chambers <markc@mail•com>
Cc: "Linuxppc-Embedded \(\(E-Mail\)\)" <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: Memory mapping PCI memory region to user space
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:54:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4422E0CB.8080701@ovro.caltech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00be01c64ea1$4c6e0e20$6401a8c0@CHUCK2>


> 
> PCI is actually endian-agnostic, so we're really 'fixing' the 
> Freescale PCI implementation with endian swapping.
> 

Hi Mark,

Its not agnostic, its little-endian.

The configuration space layout of parameters larger than a
byte are defined in little endian format.

The wiring on the PCI bus is little-endian, and 32-bit
quantities on the bus are represented by a logic analyzer
in little endian format.

But once you start talking about BAR regions, then yeah,
they're your bytes, do with them what you will. My hardware
uses a little-endian TI DSP, and an x86 host, so I
had been using compatible machines.

But the PLX PCI-9054 PCI chipset exposes BAR[0] and BAR[1]
as control registers that are little-endian format.

Conversely, we also use some Janz CAN cards, and their
messaging protocol over PCI uses big-endian format
structures in their protocol.

Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-23 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-23 14:21 Memory mapping PCI memory region to user space Wyse, Chris
2006-03-23 15:44 ` Kumar Gala
2006-03-23 17:12   ` David Hawkins
2006-03-23 17:19     ` Kumar Gala
2006-03-23 17:43       ` Mark Chambers
2006-03-23 17:54         ` David Hawkins [this message]
2006-03-23 19:55           ` Mark Chambers
2006-03-23 20:26             ` David Hawkins
2006-03-23 17:46       ` David Hawkins
2006-03-27  8:02   ` Phil Nitschke
2006-03-27 16:05     ` David Hawkins
2006-03-28  4:21       ` Phil Nitschke
2006-03-28  4:55         ` David Hawkins
2006-03-28  6:44           ` Phil Nitschke
2006-03-28 16:35             ` David Hawkins
2006-03-27 16:18     ` Kumar Gala
2006-03-29  2:26       ` Phil Nitschke
2006-03-23 17:04 ` David Hawkins
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-23 19:52 Wyse, Chris
2006-03-23 20:01 ` Kumar Gala

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