Re: symbols

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 fh...@at... wrote:
> In <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008021416290.427-100000@cassiopeia.home>, on 08/02/00 
>    at 02:21 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@li...> said:
> 
> >On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 fh...@at... wrote:
> 
> >Depending on the wanted endiannes (I don't know how the 53c770 is
> >connected to the PPC bus, it could be byte swapped), you should map e.g.
> >writel_b2l() to out_be32() or out_le32(). Note that arguments for writel
> >and out_*32 are in a different order.
> 
> How would I find out?  I tried sending a message to Ralph Schmidt but so
> far I have received no answer.  Attached is my latest dmesg after
> compiling the driver as MMIO.  I guess I now have to learn about SCSI
> scripts.  Any pointers?

By reading a register for which you (partially) know the contents. If you read
back what you'd expect, you're reading in the correct endianness.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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