Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order | Date | Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:19:22 +0000 (GMT) |
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> If the BE/LE mode flag is unprivileged (which we might not > know until the IA64 NDAs expire), then libc can manage the flag on > entry/exit from the kernel. If it's privileged, there might need to > be some small involvement by the kernel to manage the flag.
This whole discussion is more than a little ahead of its time. We don't even know if the endian-ness is hardwired in the chipsets
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