Subject: Re: call for testing changes to le(4) for PCI on big-endian machine
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/28/2000 21:25:03
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 09:05:11AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In <v0422080bb57ec1272e2f@[216.240.40.194]>
> fair@clock.org wrote:
>
> > PR kern/9602 has changes for le(4) to make it work on a big-endian
> > machine with a PCI front-end (it has worked for years on NetBSD/sparc
> > on Sbus and obio, and sun3).
> >
> > We need someone who has the hardware (an le(4) ethernet board, and a
> > big-endian machine with PCI (e.g. macppc, sparc64) to test the
> > changes and let us know if they work, and therefore whether to commit
> > or not.
>
> (BTW, I believe Nonaka has a newer patch which changes only if_le_pci.c.)
It is appended to kern/9602, so if somebody wants to verify it, its there.
-is