Subject: kern/12089: wi driver is little-endian specific
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <wiz@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/31/2001 08:13:20
>Number: 12089
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: wi driver is little-endian specific
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jan 31 08:16:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Thomas Klausner
>Release: current of 2001-01-14
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD klausner.inria.fr 1.5R NetBSD 1.5R (KRAFTLACKEL) #0: Tue Jan 30 14:19:14 CET 2001 wiz@klausner.inria.fr:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/KRAFTLACKEL macppc
Architecture: powerpc
Machine: macppc
>Description:
wi driver is only working on little endian platforms.
>How-To-Repeat:
Plug in a cardbus card that gets recognized by the wi driver.
See that the MAC address is byteswapped.
Take a look at the code, and see it's assuming little-endianness in
many places.
>Fix:
None provided.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: