[PATCH v2 2/5] m68k: Fix writew(), writel(), readw(), readl() endianness
Angelo Dureghello
angelo at kernel-space.org
Wed Apr 8 14:12:11 CEST 2026
Hi Daniel,
On 4/6/26 16:24, Daniel Palmer wrote:
> In Linux these are meant to read a little-endian value and swap
> to the CPU endian.
>
> In u-boot for m68k this is currently borken and prevents
> virtio-mmio from functioning.
>
mmm, "currently broken" ?
If you remove bigendian read/write the driver framework will fail
to work with coldfire/m68k stuff.
I tested the patchset over master in stmark2 board, seems this patch is
breaking dspi cs init:
stmark2 $ saveenv
Saving Environment to SPIFlash... *** Warning - spi_flash_probe_bus_cs() failed, using default environment
Failed (-1)
stmark2 $ sf probe
spi_coldfire dspi at fc05c000: Invalid chip select 0:0 (err=-19)
Failed to initialize SPI flash at 0:0 (error -19)
stmark2 $
Please find a different solution, that may be using "xxx_le" stuff directly
from your code.
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel at thingy.jp>
> ---
> arch/m68k/include/asm/io.h | 17 +++++------------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/m68k/include/asm/io.h b/arch/m68k/include/asm/io.h
> index 35ad4a1c0444..f4877b0446cf 100644
> --- a/arch/m68k/include/asm/io.h
> +++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/io.h
> @@ -24,18 +24,11 @@
> #define __raw_writel(l,addr) ((*(volatile u32 *) (addr)) = (l))
>
> #define readb(addr) in_8((volatile u8 *)(addr))
> -#define writeb(b,addr) out_8((volatile u8 *)(addr), (b))
> -#if !defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)
> -#define readw(addr) (*(volatile u16 *) (addr))
> -#define readl(addr) (*(volatile u32 *) (addr))
> -#define writew(b,addr) ((*(volatile u16 *) (addr)) = (b))
> -#define writel(b,addr) ((*(volatile u32 *) (addr)) = (b))
> -#else
> -#define readw(addr) in_be16((volatile u16 *)(addr))
> -#define readl(addr) in_be32((volatile u32 *)(addr))
> -#define writew(b,addr) out_be16((volatile u16 *)(addr),(b))
> -#define writel(b,addr) out_be32((volatile u32 *)(addr),(b))
> -#endif
> +#define writeb(b, addr) out_8((volatile u8 *)(addr), (b))
> +#define readw(addr) in_le16((volatile u16 *)(addr))
> +#define readl(addr) in_le32((volatile u32 *)(addr))
> +#define writew(b, addr) out_le16((volatile u16 *)(addr), (b))
> +#define writel(b, addr) out_le32((volatile u32 *)(addr), (b))
>
> /*
> * The insw/outsw/insl/outsl macros don't do byte-swapping.
Regards,
-- Angelo
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