>From: "Mark H. Weaver" <mhw@netris.org>
>Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 04:39:53 -0500

>I wrote:
>> Sorry, should've thought to check for that.  0x4156 is read, and
>> 0x5641 is what we want, meaning that the word-read seems to be
>> returning the big-endian representation for some reason.
>> 
>> Was the change to byte-reads ever tested?
>
>Oops, I didn't notice the htons's used in the word-read code; I just
>copied it blind from version 1.60 of ultra14f.c.
>
>I guess it was never tested, and is a simple mistake.  How about the
>following patch instead?

I biffed this.  In port-i386/2150 I translated the inw() to the
equivalent pair of inb()s, but forgot about the byte-swap performed by
htons() on the i386.  I think your latest patch will work, and should
be applied ASAP.
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