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    SubjectRe: RFC: Devices, buses and hotplug
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    >    How do you expect to handle say video memory on 24 bit cards where
    > it doesn't fill up and use 32 bits per pixel using this scheme on
    > big endian machines?
    >
    > I don't see how the size of a particular datum changes the problem.

    Try working in wrongendian 24bit mode for a while Dave, its _horrible_ trying
    to get the byte shifting and flipping right for 3 bytes/pixel packed. Thats
    hard to do efficiently on ppc


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