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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:27:21 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/12] generic *_bit()
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To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>, 'Christoph Hellwig' <hch@infradead.org>, 'Akinobu Mita' <mita@miraclelinux.com>, Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>, Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:24:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Russell King wrote:
> > Invalid assumption, from the point of view of endianness across different
> > architectures.  Consider where bit 0 is for a LE and BE unsigned long *
> > vs a LE and BE unsigned char *.
> 
> Intel doesn't care about big endian (cfr. your lkml back issues of January
> 2006).

Incorrect.  Intel does actually produce big endian CPUs - most of the
Intel IXP (ARM based) stuff is big endian.  It just depends which part
of Intel you're referring to.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core