[PATCH 2/2] drivers/gpio: Port gpio driver to layerscape platform

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Nov 4 02:09:58 PST 2015


On Wednesday 04 November 2015 03:17:38 Scott Wood wrote:
> > I guess this is fixed per architecture, so you could also do this as
> > 
> > static inline void gpio_out32(u32 val, void __iomem *addr)
> > {
> >       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM))
> >               iowrite32(val, addr);
> >       else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC))
> >               iowrite32be(val, addr);
> >       else
> >               BUG();
> > }
> 
> Unfortunately that guess is wrong.  Some of our ARM chips have big-endian I/O 
> and some have little-endian I/O.

Ok, I see. In that case, using run-time detection everywhere is
probably best.

	Arnd



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