Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: Devices, buses and hotplug | Date | Mon, 7 Jun 1999 17:02:56 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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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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