From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][e2fsprogs] Move ext2fs_struct_generic_bitmap back into ext2fs.h
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:57:15 -0400
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>It turns out the need for this was only in the very first ports of
>Linux to the Powerpc, and there haven't been kernels that would mount
>big-endian superblocks since, oh, 1998 or so (in the 2.0 days).
>
>So probably the better fix is one where we don't allow big-endian
>filesystems any more.  On all modern systems, we use little-endian
>encoding of the superblock, and the bitmaps don't need byte-swapping.

Here's the set of patches to remove the support for the powerpc
big-endian filesystem variant.

						- Ted