AW: RPX Classic/Lite and byte ordering

Florian Schirmer / TayTron schirmer at taytron.net
Fri Mar 30 14:32:43 EST 2001


Hi!

>I am having trouble with an Embeddded Planet RPX board.  The mtd layer
>seems to be reversing the data by double words.  If I write (then cat)
>some text, every double word is reversed.  I can use a cramfs file
>system, but I have to reverse the dwords myself before writing it to
>flash, then everything works fine.  JFFS and other file systems
>obviously don't work, since the data is written by mtd in the wrong
>order.  I am doing everything on big-endian machines (PowerPC).
>
>If someone can point me to the right code I would be glad to work on
>this.

Did you upgrade to the latest cvs code? If not try this first. If you
already have the latest code then play with the endian options under the cfi
advanced settings in the kernel config.

PPC works very here.

Hope that helps
  Florian Schirmer



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