Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:40:17 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft |
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> In a perfect world we would settle of one of big or little-endian and > byte-swap as appropriate, as we do with, e.g., Ext2 filesystems. However it > seems that cpio in its current form has no concept of byte-swapping. Cpio(1) > can neither generate nor decode a cpio file in the 'foreign' byte sex. So if > we are determined to use cpio as it stands, then we are stuck with the goofy > ASCII encoding, does that sum up the situation? > > Too bad about that, otherwise cpio seems quite reasonable.
I have to go back and look, isn't -Hcrc endian-neutral?
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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