Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754029AbXLIWut (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:50:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751939AbXLIWum (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:50:42 -0500 Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.35]:57894 "EHLO smtp5-g19.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751012AbXLIWul (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:50:41 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 410 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:50:41 EST Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:50:39 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxconsole-dev@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: vcsa and big endian Message-ID: <20071209225039.GB25047@implementation> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxconsole-dev@lists.sourceforge.net References: <20071209224348.GA25292@implementation> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20071209224348.GA25292@implementation> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 707 Lines: 16 Samuel Thibault, le Sun 09 Dec 2007 23:43:49 +0100, a ?crit : > On big endian machines, /dev/vcsa stores text/attribute bytes in big > endian order, while it stores them in little endian order on little > endian machines. Is that expected? It looks like ggi considers this as normal. In any case, the vcsa manual page should probably be made more clear ("but including attributes" -> "but using unsigned shorts that include attributes" for instance). Samuel -- 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/