| Date | Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:33:32 -0800 | From | David Miller <> | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order |
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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:13:10 +1100 From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
Hi, all. I've been discussing the byte order that Linux/IA-64 will have with David Mosberger from HP. I'm arguing for big-endian to be used.
You mean that IA-64 can do either big or little endian, yet lacks a way to specify alternate endianness in load and store instructions? Tell me it isn't true.
Of course another advantage of big endian is for IP networking, no byte swapping to do on header/protocol fields for every packet etc. But honestly with today's cpu speeds the byte swapping is lost in the noise in the TCP stack.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
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