[openib-general] RE: [PATCH] amso1100: use standard byteorder macros

Tom Tucker tom at ammasso.com
Fri Aug 12 08:04:28 PDT 2005


I'll send one out here in a few minutes with the bexx related changes.
I'll accept the memcpy4 patch.

Thanks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch at lst.de] 
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:12 AM
> To: Roland Dreier
> Cc: Tom Tucker; Christoph Hellwig; openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] RE: [PATCH] amso1100: use 
> standard byteorder macros
> 
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:13:24PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> >     Tom> Christoph: This is great stuff, but would be even better if
> >     Tom> we just globally replaced thinks like "cpu_to_wr64" with
> >     Tom> "cpu_to_be64" and removed the cc_byteorder.h file 
> altogether?
> > 
> > Yes, if your byte order is definitely frozen to big-endian, 
> then you 
> > should definitely killall the cpu_to_wrXX wrappers.
> 
> Agreed.  This was just the most trivial obvious correct patch 
> to get things to mostly compile on ppc.
> 
> I'll do a new round of patches when I find time.
> 



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