| Date | Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:39:28 -0800 | From | David Miller <> | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order |
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 20:06:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Instead, you should make a rule based upon performance (like network communication).
As stated in my other posting, in the realm of IP protocols at least, there is no issue, there is no performance penalty, it's all in the noise with todays cpu speeds and how we've cleverly minimized the byte swapping as much as possible in our stack.
As for the display etc. device argument, this is nonsense too. I talk to little endian video cards, little endian ide controllers, etc. on my big-endian mode cpu every day and it goes at hardware speeds.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
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