[U-Boot-Users] IDE access swaps the bytes.
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Thu Dec 2 22:49:03 CET 2004
In message <OF3F292F76.1C02E690-ON88256F5E.006658A6-88256F5E.006658AA at Cyclades.com> you wrote:
>
> I am using the u-boot with a MPC855T based board, and
> I am trying to boot from a compact flash by using the diskboot command.
I'm sorry, but my crystal ball is in dire need of an ectoplasmic up-
grade - in it's current state I am unable to see how your CF card is
attached to the system - is it through the PCMCIA controller, or
directly on the bus, or what?
> After debugging the code, I found out that the u-boot does
> not detect a DOS partition in the compact flash because
> the bytes are swapped when data is read from the IDE.
This is something that is specific to your hardware, then. It works
fine on the systems we have here.
> As the processor is big-endian, I supposed the u-boot
> would automatically fix this swapping problem, though I
> could not understand how. The IDE interface is set in
By use of appropriate access macros?
> set a "define" to fix this swapping problem, or if I should
> change the code (cmd_ide.c, I guess) using #ifdef <my platform>.
Don't change the code as long as you don't understand what's going
on. As mentioned before: the current code is working fine on several
systems with both big- and little-endian architectures.
> Could anyone please explain this to me?
Without studying the schematics of your board? That's not exactly a
one-banana problem...
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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