Re: ioread32 endianess.

From: Kyle McMartin
Date: Mon Feb 26 2007 - 11:05:28 EST


On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 06:36:05PM +0300, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> Hello.
>
> May I ask you, guys, if ioread32 and his friends should treat the data
> as host-endian or bus-endian? E.g, should the data read from PCI on a
> big-endian host be byte swapped or not?
>

It should be in bus-endian. This is why ioreadXbe() exist.

Cheers,
Kyle
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