Re: endiannes of the kernel

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:17:56 +0200 (MEST)


Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> 64-bit clean, big-endian clean and uses (read|write)[bwl] are basically
> the three things some drivers don't get.

Speaking of which, can someone tell me if the Alpha has different
endianness than the Intel processors?

I wrote a driver that reportedly simply works on Alpha. So I've been
64-bit clean. The next question is if I was careful enough to also
make things endianness-clean.

(In fact, I think there is a place where endianness matters, but it
didn't affect the Alpha... )

Roger.

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