From: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
To: "Kinney, Michael D" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>,
Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Cc: "edk2-devel@lists.01.org" <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>,
Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
"Gao, Liming" <liming.gao@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MdePkg: add big-endian MMIO BaseBeIoLib
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:34:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52ea5684-380d-0519-2545-6ef7f62198ae@ipxe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E92EE9817A31E24EB0585FDF735412F5B89CF92E@ORSMSX113.amr.corp.intel.com>
On 16/04/18 15:10, Kinney, Michael D wrote:
> I agree that the opposite use case is a BE CPU
> needing a LE operation.
>
> I think we only need a single lib class and lib
> Instance that does the byte swap and we should
> not use Le or Be in any of the names of the class,
> instance, or APIs. Just "Swap".
I may have misunderstood, but wouldn't using "Swap" within the API names
effectively encode knowledge of the endianness of the _build_ platform
into the source code? This would prevent the same source code being
built for both little-endian and big-endian CPUs.
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-16 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-13 17:42 [PATCH] MdePkg: add big-endian MMIO BaseBeIoLib Leif Lindholm
2018-04-13 19:24 ` Kinney, Michael D
2018-04-13 19:31 ` Leif Lindholm
2018-04-13 23:32 ` Kinney, Michael D
2018-04-16 10:07 ` Leif Lindholm
2018-04-16 14:10 ` Kinney, Michael D
2018-04-16 14:34 ` Michael Brown [this message]
2018-04-16 20:42 ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-16 22:14 ` Michael Brown
2018-04-17 8:01 ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-17 8:24 ` Michael Brown
2018-04-17 9:57 ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-17 13:26 ` Leif Lindholm
2018-04-17 15:20 ` Kinney, Michael D
2018-04-17 6:57 ` Udit Kumar
2018-04-16 19:32 ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-17 8:15 ` Udit Kumar
2018-04-17 9:42 ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-17 10:32 ` Udit Kumar
2018-04-17 13:55 ` (spawning off more style discussion) Leif Lindholm
2018-04-18 8:51 ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-16 4:39 ` [PATCH] MdePkg: add big-endian MMIO BaseBeIoLib Udit Kumar
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