17 Apr, 2005

2 commits

  • In the new io infrastructure, all of our operators are expecting the
    underlying device to be little endian (because the PCI bus, their main
    consumer, is LE).

    However, there are a fair few devices and busses in the world that are
    actually Big Endian. There's even evidence that some of these BE bus and
    chip types are attached to LE systems. Thus, there's a need for a BE
    equivalent of our io{read,write}{16,32} operations.

    The attached patch adds this as io{read,write}{16,32}be. When it's in,
    I'll add the first consume (the 53c700 SCSI chip driver).

    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    James Bottomley
     
  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds