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SubjectRe: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix IO access in rivafb


On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
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> In big endian machines, the read*/write* accessors do a byteswap for an
> inherently little endian PCI bus. However, rivafb puts the hardwire in big
> endian register access, thus the byteswap is not needed. So, instead of
> read*/write*, use __raw_read*/__raw_write*.

This fix should make the #ifdef CONFIG_PCC entirely superfluous afaik.

The thing is, once riva does its HW accesses right, the special cases just
go away. There's a reason we have abstractions..

Does anybody have the hardware to test with?

Linus
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