[U-Boot] [PATCH][v2] driver/ifc:Change accessor function to take care of endianness

[Scott Wood]

On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 10:14 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear York,
> 
> In message <F1D691E4-180A-4A2D-BE07-812547D46419 at freescale.com> you wrote:
> > 
> > > On second thought, I also think we should avoid solutions where the
> > > BE/LE test has to be done for each and every I/O accessor call again
> > > and again.  We should rather do this just once, and for example set
> > > function pointers as needed (hoping that this driver will only be
> > > needed after relocation, so we have writable data segment).
> > 
> > I like the idea of setting it just once, but I don't see how to
> > implement it. A pointer is probably not the solution, because we do need
> > some drivers before relocation.
> 
> "some drivers before relocation" - how many which are these?
> 
> Also, is it really necessary to make the decision about endianess at
> runtime?  We don't have multi-board support in U-Boot yet, so when you
> build an image you know exactly which SoC you are building for, so you
> should be able to make the selection at compile time?

It is done at compile time in this patch.

-Scott