On 08/12/2014 10:32 PM, Chen Gang wrote:
>
> Yeah, we need.
>
>> The solution you suggest assumes that an arch is either little or big endian.
>> But we cannot ignore the hybriads that can do both.
>>
>
> For the architectures which can do both, for me, they are: sh, powerpc,
> m32r, and mips (may mark CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN), also are: arm/arm64, and
> c6x (may mark !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN).
>
> For the architectures which only support little endian: x86, and ia64.
>
> The left, I assumes they are big endian (no any 'ENDIAN' can be found
> in their Kconfig files). In my memory, except related with Intel, all
> are (or support) big endian.
>
I'm quite certain that is wrong. From memory, for example, I believe
CRIS is littleendian, and sure enough:
: tazenda 103 ; less arch/cris/include/uapi/asm/byteorder.h
#ifndef _CRIS_BYTEORDER_H
#define _CRIS_BYTEORDER_H
#include <linux/byteorder/little_endian.h>
#endif
As far as I know, endianism is always a compile-time option on Linux, so
we should be able to relatively easily define the architecture so that
we either have hardwired littleendian, bigendian, or prompt.
-hpa
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