*     @addr: the start address to write
  *     @n: length of data to write in bytes
  *     @data: the data to write
+ *     @byte_oriented: whether to store data as bytes or as words
  *
  *     Writes up to a page of data (256 bytes) to the serial flash starting
  *     at the given address.  All the data must be written to the same page.
+ *     If @byte_oriented is set the write data is stored as byte stream
+ *     (i.e. matches what on disk), otherwise in big-endian.
  */
 static int t4_write_flash(struct adapter *adapter, unsigned int addr,
-                         unsigned int n, const u8 *data)
+                         unsigned int n, const u8 *data, bool byte_oriented)
 {
-       int ret;
-       u32 buf[64];
        unsigned int i, c, left, val, offset = addr & 0xff;
+       u32 buf[64];
+       int ret;
 
        if (addr >= adapter->params.sf_size || offset + n > SF_PAGE_SIZE)
                return -EINVAL;
            (ret = sf1_write(adapter, 4, 1, 1, val)) != 0)
                goto unlock;
 
-       for (left = n; left; left -= c) {
+       for (left = n; left; left -= c, data += c) {
                c = min(left, 4U);
-               for (val = 0, i = 0; i < c; ++i)
-                       val = (val << 8) + *data++;
+               for (val = 0, i = 0; i < c; ++i) {
+                       if (byte_oriented)
+                               val = (val << 8) + data[i];
+                       else
+                               val = (val << 8) + data[c - i - 1];
+               }
 
                ret = sf1_write(adapter, c, c != left, 1, val);
                if (ret)
        t4_write_reg(adapter, SF_OP_A, 0);    /* unlock SF */
 
        /* Read the page to verify the write succeeded */
-       ret = t4_read_flash(adapter, addr & ~0xff, ARRAY_SIZE(buf), buf, 1);
+       ret = t4_read_flash(adapter, addr & ~0xff, ARRAY_SIZE(buf), buf,
+                           byte_oriented);
        if (ret)
                return ret;
 
         */
        memcpy(first_page, fw_data, SF_PAGE_SIZE);
        ((struct fw_hdr *)first_page)->fw_ver = cpu_to_be32(0xffffffff);
-       ret = t4_write_flash(adap, fw_start, SF_PAGE_SIZE, first_page);
+       ret = t4_write_flash(adap, fw_start, SF_PAGE_SIZE, first_page, true);
        if (ret)
                goto out;
 
        for (size -= SF_PAGE_SIZE; size; size -= SF_PAGE_SIZE) {
                addr += SF_PAGE_SIZE;
                fw_data += SF_PAGE_SIZE;
-               ret = t4_write_flash(adap, addr, SF_PAGE_SIZE, fw_data);
+               ret = t4_write_flash(adap, addr, SF_PAGE_SIZE, fw_data, true);
                if (ret)
                        goto out;
        }
 
-       ret = t4_write_flash(adap,
-                            fw_start + offsetof(struct fw_hdr, fw_ver),
-                            sizeof(hdr->fw_ver), (const u8 *)&hdr->fw_ver);
+       ret = t4_write_flash(adap, fw_start + offsetof(struct fw_hdr, fw_ver),
+                            sizeof(hdr->fw_ver), (const u8 *)&hdr->fw_ver,
+                            true);
 out:
        if (ret)
                dev_err(adap->pdev_dev, "firmware download failed, error %d\n",
                        n = size - i;
                else
                        n = SF_PAGE_SIZE;
-               ret = t4_write_flash(adap, addr, n, cfg_data);
+               ret = t4_write_flash(adap, addr, n, cfg_data, true);
                if (ret)
                        goto out;
 
        for (size -= SF_PAGE_SIZE; size; size -= SF_PAGE_SIZE) {
                addr += SF_PAGE_SIZE;
                boot_data += SF_PAGE_SIZE;
-               ret = t4_write_flash(adap, addr, SF_PAGE_SIZE, boot_data);
+               ret = t4_write_flash(adap, addr, SF_PAGE_SIZE, boot_data,
+                                    false);
                if (ret)
                        goto out;
        }
 
        ret = t4_write_flash(adap, boot_sector, SF_PAGE_SIZE,
-                            (const u8 *)header);
+                            (const u8 *)header, false);
 
 out:
        if (ret)
        for (i = 0; i < size; i += SF_PAGE_SIZE) {
                n = min_t(u32, size - i, SF_PAGE_SIZE);
 
-               ret = t4_write_flash(adap, addr, n, cfg_data);
+               ret = t4_write_flash(adap, addr, n, cfg_data, false);
                if (ret)
                        goto out;
 
        for (i = 0; i < npad; i++) {
                u8 data = 0;
 
-               ret = t4_write_flash(adap, cfg_addr + size + i, 1, &data);
+               ret = t4_write_flash(adap, cfg_addr + size + i, 1, &data,
+                                    false);
                if (ret)
                        goto out;
        }