diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-lpc.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-lpc.c
index ad4b31df779a..e4169d68cb32 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-lpc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-lpc.c
@@ -216,14 +216,54 @@ static ssize_t lpc_debug_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
 				   &data, len);
 		if (rc)
 			return -ENXIO;
+
+		/*
+		 * Now there is some trickery with the data returned by OPAL
+		 * as it's the desired data right justified in a 32-bit BE
+		 * word.
+		 *
+		 * This is a very bad interface and I'm to blame for it :-(
+		 *
+		 * So we can't just apply a 32-bit swap to what comes from OPAL,
+		 * because user space expects the *bytes* to be in their proper
+		 * respective positions (ie, LPC position).
+		 *
+		 * So what we really want to do here is to shift data right
+		 * appropriately on a LE kernel.
+		 *
+		 * IE. If the LPC transaction has bytes B0, B1, B2 and B3 in that
+		 * order, we have in memory written to by OPAL at the "data"
+		 * pointer:
+		 *
+		 *               Bytes:      OPAL "data"   LE "data"
+		 *   32-bit:   B0 B1 B2 B3   B0B1B2B3      B3B2B1B0
+		 *   16-bit:   B0 B1         0000B0B1      B1B00000
+		 *    8-bit:   B0            000000B0      B0000000
+		 *
+		 * So a BE kernel will have the leftmost of the above in the MSB
+		 * and rightmost in the LSB and can just then "cast" the u32 "data"
+		 * down to the appropriate quantity and write it.
+		 *
+		 * However, an LE kernel can't. It doesn't need to swap because a
+		 * load from data followed by a store to user are going to preserve
+		 * the byte ordering which is the wire byte order which is what the
+		 * user wants, but in order to "crop" to the right size, we need to
+		 * shift right first.
+		 */
 		switch(len) {
 		case 4:
 			rc = __put_user((u32)data, (u32 __user *)ubuf);
 			break;
 		case 2:
+#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
+			data >>= 16;
+#endif
 			rc = __put_user((u16)data, (u16 __user *)ubuf);
 			break;
 		default:
+#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
+			data >>= 24;
+#endif
 			rc = __put_user((u8)data, (u8 __user *)ubuf);
 			break;
 		}
@@ -263,12 +303,31 @@ static ssize_t lpc_debug_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
 			else if (todo > 1 && (pos & 1) == 0)
 				len = 2;
 		}
+
+		/*
+		 * Similarly to the read case, we have some trickery here but
+		 * it's different to handle. We need to pass the value to OPAL in
+		 * a register whose layout depends on the access size. We want
+		 * to reproduce the memory layout of the user, however we aren't
+		 * doing a load from user and a store to another memory location
+		 * which would achieve that. Here we pass the value to OPAL via
+		 * a register which is expected to contain the "BE" interpretation
+		 * of the byte sequence. IE: for a 32-bit access, byte 0 should be
+		 * in the MSB. So here we *do* need to byteswap on LE.
+		 *
+		 *           User bytes:    LE "data"  OPAL "data"
+		 *  32-bit:  B0 B1 B2 B3    B3B2B1B0   B0B1B2B3
+		 *  16-bit:  B0 B1          0000B1B0   0000B0B1
+		 *   8-bit:  B0             000000B0   000000B0
+		 */
 		switch(len) {
 		case 4:
 			rc = __get_user(data, (u32 __user *)ubuf);
+			data = cpu_to_be32(data);
 			break;
 		case 2:
 			rc = __get_user(data, (u16 __user *)ubuf);
+			data = cpu_to_be16(data);
 			break;
 		default:
 			rc = __get_user(data, (u8 __user *)ubuf);