xf86-video-chips: pci access byte swapped under powerpc
Donald Kayser
xorg at kayser.net
Thu Sep 17 09:06:21 PDT 2009
I have been rewriting the xf86-video-chips to enable independent
monitors. My system is PPC, and on the C&T 69030 you can configure the
frame buffer for big endian. What I have discovered is that not only
does it swap bytes for the frame buffer, but pci configuration is also
byte swapped, and this causes problems that I am working around.
This is an issue when the mouse pointer moves from one chips's screen
to the next chip's screen. I have debugged it to the point where the
code in xf86pciBus.c - initPciState() has shown me what is going on.
When the mouse moves from on screen to the next, the pci configuration
is written to - it is disabling the pci config io for one card and
enabling the pci config io for the next card. Since this data is now
swapped, it kills the chip when configuring the pci data.
Since I have two chips on this platform and it is configured for MMIO,
there is no need to reconfigure the pci configuration. I am looking
for a way to override the pci access, or at least be notified of
pending access so that I can set the configuration back to little
endian until the access is complete.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Donald Kayser
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