On Sunday 14 October 2012, Hein Tibosch wrote:
> From: Hein Tibosch <[email protected]>
> 
> The dw_dmac was originally developed for avr32 to be used with the Synopsys
> DesignWare AHB DMA controller. Starting from 2.6.38, access to the device's 
> i/o
> memory was done with the little-endian readl/writel functions(1)
> 
> This broke the driver for the avr32 platform, because it needs big (native)
> endian accessors.
> This patch makes the endianness configurable using 'DW_DMAC_BIG_ENDIAN_IO',
> which will default be true for AVR32
> 
> I submitted this patch before(2) but then waited for Andy to finish other
> changes to the same module(3).
> 
> (1) https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/608211
> (2) https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/26/148
> (3) https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/21/173
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hein Tibosch <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
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