On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:55:51PM +0200, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 2/17/09, Liu Yu <yu....@freescale.com> wrote:
> > MPIC and OpenPIC have very similar design.
> >  So a lot of code can be reused.
> >
> >  Modification mainly include:
> >  1. keep struct openpic_t to the maximum size of both MPIC and OpenPIC.
> >  2. endianess swap.
> >    MPIC has the same endianess as target, so no need to swap for MPIC.
> 
> I don't think this is correct, the host can still be different endian
> from target.
> 

I do not agree. As long as we don't manipulate host memory, the host
endianess has nothing to do. The values are simply passed by value, they
don't need to be swapped.

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