> Curently in 2.5 (afaik in -ac too), the ide-iops "s" routines used
> to transfer datas in/out the data port are incorrect for big endian
> machines. They are implemented with a loop of inw/outw which are
> byteswapping, but a fifo transfer like that mustn't be swapped.
Dunno about ppc, but sparc works just fine as it is in 2.4.
When was the last time you examined include/asm-sparc/ide.h?
IDE uses ide_insw instead of plain insw specifically to
resolve this kind of issue, and you are trying to defeat
the mechanism designed to help you. I smell a fish here.
-- Pete
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