[PATCH 2/7] ARM: shmobile: r8a7779: Use ioremap() to map INTC2 registers

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Arnd,

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 3:39 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 3:19 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 1:25 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 11:30 AM Geert Uytterhoeven
> > > <geert+renesas at glider.be> wrote:
> > > > Replace using the legacy IOMEM() macro to map various registers related
> > > > to INTC2 configuration by ioremap().
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
> > >
> > > The patch looks good, but since you are already touching these __raw_writel(),
> > > could you turn them into normal writel() to have a chance that this works
> > > on big-endian? It could be either a follow-up or merged into the same patch.
> >
> > (Do you want us to support big-endian on these old platforms? ;-)
> >
> > At your service. Seems to work well.
>
> In general, my preference is that code is written in a portable way, to make
> it at least plausible that it works. I don't expect anyone to actually run
> big-endian code on it, but if you can confirm that it boots all the way
> to not finding a compatible /sbin/init, that would be awesome.

With "work well", I meant no regressions after converting from _raw_*()
to normal accessors.  No idea how to boot big-endian kernels on this
hardware ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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