Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:05:23 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Cramfs Endianness |
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Hi!
> 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)
Just submit the patch.
Pavel ...whose mips box is fortunately little endian...
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