Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:47:41 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxconsole-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: vcsa and big endian
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On Sun 2007-12-09 23:50:39, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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).

I'd say you need stronger warning than that, "warning, vcsa is in host
byte endianity" or something.

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