Re: kern/39659: ahci sata driver does not work on big endian system

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/39659; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/39659: ahci sata driver does not work on big endian system
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:51:48 +0200

 On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 05:35:00PM +0000, sileizhang%yahoo.com@localhost wrote:
 > >Number:         39659
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       ahci sata driver does not work on big endian system
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    kern-bug-people
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 30 17:35:00 +0000 2008
 > >Originator:     Chris Zhang
 > >Release:        4.0
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > >Description:
 > When testing on a PPC440 based system using NetBSD 4.0 (with customized 
 > BSP), I realized the Ahci driver does work (identify device would return 
 > garbage). Later investigation shows, the ahcisata_core.c does not snoop the 
 > IDENTIFY_DEVICE command and byte swap on big endian system as it does in 
 > sys/dev/ic/wdc.c. We added some code in ahcisata_core.c to do the same as 
 > wdc.c and it appears to work fine. 
 
 
 Hi,
 could you send your diffs ?
 
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