Re: [PATCH] fix ide-iops for big endian archs

Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh@kernel.crashing.org)
Thu, 26 Sep 2002 23:03:04 +0200

>to put it a bit more precise, this is bus endianness, nothing to
>do with arch endianness.

Well, right, though this is also the way a PCI bus is supposed
to be wired to a BE CPU, and is the most common way to wire a
bus with ISA-like chipsets (16 bits busses) on a BE core ;)

Ben.

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