Subject: Re: [PATCH][BNX2X] round three

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:05:12 +0200

> This is not a driver issue.
> Unfortunately, the firmware code is different for LE and BE machines.
> We had issues with the BE firmware that appear to be resolved.
> Hopefully, the next version will have both.

If the firmware is big it might be better to just add the necessary
conversions to the driver and always use BE. Endian conversions
tend to be very cheap.

Also we probably should have BE/LE Kconfig symbol for this to handle such
cases more elegantly in the future.

-Andi