On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:14:18AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Shouldn't the driver already know it is being used on a BE machine?

No.  Endianness of the CPU is not necessarily the same as the endianness
of device registers.

For example, PCI OHCI on a big-endian host.

-Scott
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