Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:27:21 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/12] generic *_bit() |
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On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:24:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Russell King wrote: > > Invalid assumption, from the point of view of endianness across different > > architectures. Consider where bit 0 is for a LE and BE unsigned long * > > vs a LE and BE unsigned char *. > > Intel doesn't care about big endian (cfr. your lkml back issues of January > 2006).
Incorrect. Intel does actually produce big endian CPUs - most of the Intel IXP (ARM based) stuff is big endian. It just depends which part of Intel you're referring to.
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