Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:55:24 -0700 (PDT) | From | Brad <> | Subject | Cramfs Endianness |
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Although the documentation states that always going with little endian is the easiest solution and what was "decided" on, neither the kernel nor mkcramfs swabs on a big endian machine. This is decidedly a problem with what we're doing, so I wrote a patch to swab the easy and not-quite-so-easy bitfields such that mkcramfs writes little endian images and the kernel swabs (if byteorder is defined as big_endian or __MIPSEB__ is defined).. It looks at the magic to determine whether to swab or not.
We've needed this, so we will have to incorporate this into a parallel repository if not added to the kernel. Is there another solution afoot, or might I submit this patch? (please cc me if you respond)
Thanks, Brad
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