From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id fBAK79k14055 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:07:09 -0800 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBAK74o14019 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:07:05 -0800 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fBAJ6kl09431; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:06:46 -0200 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:06:46 -0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Dominic Sweetman Cc: "H . J . Lu" , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Why is byteorder removed from /proc/cpuinfo? Message-ID: <20011210170646.E24680@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <20011206093506.A6496@lucon.org> <20011206155724.A11083@dea.linux-mips.net> <15381.384.341974.133229@gladsmuir.algor.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15381.384.341974.133229@gladsmuir.algor.co.uk>; from dom@algor.co.uk on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:40:00PM +0000 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:40:00PM +0000, Dominic Sweetman wrote: > Dynamic endianness on a per-thread basis would require fantasy > hardware which operates differently from the way MIPS chips do... I used the term thread as the c0_status register which contains the RE bit is per process. Keeping it a per mm thing would require more effort for no good reason. Anyway, inside the Linux kernel threads and processes are basically the same thing. Ralf