From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxconsole-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: vcsa and big endian
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:50:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071209225039.GB25047@implementation> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071209224348.GA25292@implementation>
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 09 Dec 2007 23:43:49 +0100, a écrit :
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-09 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-09 22:43 vcsa and big endian Samuel Thibault
2007-12-09 22:50 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2007-12-05 16:47 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-09 23:00 ` Samuel Thibault
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