Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 01:32:49 +0000 (GMT)


> I'd like to start a discussion and see if we can reach some reasonable
> consensus on whether big-endian is acceptable to the community. I
> think this is an important issue, as a little-endian Linux/IA-64 is
> going to make it a second choice for a significant number of
> people. This reason for this follows (from my orginal message to
> David):

Do you even know if the option about endianness is software ? For all I know
it might be wired down. I don't care what endian we use 8)

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