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From: Florian Boelstler <euphoria@arcor•de>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Undestanding ioread32() / readl() and friends
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:50:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <erh4m0$n83$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)

Hi,

I just came across include/asm-ppc/io.h, which revealed that ioread32() 
maps to readl(), which in turn maps to in_le32() (when CONFIG_APUS and 
CONFIG_8260_PCI9 are both not defined).
in_le32() uses a asm instruction lwbrx to do byte swapping.

I don't really get why ioread32() effectively returns a little-endian 
value on a big-endian PPCs.

Is this a sort of general rule that ioread32() always returns 
little-endian values on all architectures?

BTW, "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd edition" by Corbet et al states that 
ioread32() does not perform any endian conversion.
May be they are based on x86...

Thanks,

   Florian

next             reply	other threads:[~2007-02-21  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-21  9:50 Florian Boelstler [this message]
2007-02-21  9:56 ` Undestanding ioread32() / readl() and friends Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-21 14:33   ` Florian Boelstler

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