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From: Florian Boelstler <euphoria@arcor•de>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Undestanding ioread32() / readl() and friends
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:33:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <erhl7u$kc0$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702211056.28313.arnd@arndb.de>

Hi,

Arnd Bergmann schrieb:
>> Is this a sort of general rule that ioread32() always returns 
>> little-endian values on all architectures?
> 
> the ioread family of functions is used for PCI devices, which
> are little-endian by definition.

OK, my knowledge about ioread32() was based on some explanations found 
in "Linux Device Drivers". IMHO they showed the ioread family of 
functions as a sort of general purpose functions for __iomem-alike 
resources.

Thanks, anyway.

   Florian

      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-21 14:33 UTC|newest]

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

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