Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order | From | "Craig I. Hagan" <> | Date | 10 Mar 1999 16:32:45 -0500 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> I know there are folks out there who like BE, but let's just face it: the > PC platform is LE, and will stay so. Going to mixed-mode just because > misguided people like the old BE format is not an option I am willing to > entertain. > > The computing world would be better off with just one byte order, that > byte order isn't going to be BE.
Personally, i think that Linus has a strong argument here. More importantly, lets wait until merced's specs are released before arguing about how one might use hardware to solve the problem.
Most importantly, I've a funny feeling that doing any of this in the kernel will be a lose, and it likely will be far better/smarter to implement any "weird compatibility" things into either libc, or some 'lib-bigendiancompat" rather than putting yet another piece of complexity into the kernel.
-- craig
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