Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932082AbWBCK1c (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 05:27:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751168AbWBCK1c (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 05:27:32 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:9742 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751036AbWBCK1b (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 05:27:31 -0500 Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:27:21 +0000 From: Russell King To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" , "'Christoph Hellwig'" , "'Akinobu Mita'" , Grant Grundler , Linux Kernel Development , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/12] generic *_bit() Message-ID: <20060203102721.GE30738@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Geert Uytterhoeven , "Chen, Kenneth W" , 'Christoph Hellwig' , 'Akinobu Mita' , Grant Grundler , Linux Kernel Development , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org References: <20060201180237.GA18464@infradead.org> <200602011807.k11I7ag15563@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20060201191957.GG3072@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 920 Lines: 22 On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:24:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Russell King wrote: > > Invalid assumption, from the point of view of endianness across different > > architectures. Consider where bit 0 is for a LE and BE unsigned long * > > vs a LE and BE unsigned char *. > > Intel doesn't care about big endian (cfr. your lkml back issues of January > 2006). Incorrect. Intel does actually produce big endian CPUs - most of the Intel IXP (ARM based) stuff is big endian. It just depends which part of Intel you're referring to. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/