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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:22:19 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: Reiserfs (was: Re: __ia64_syscall ?)
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Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> writes:

|> Martin Wilck (Martin.Wilck@fujitsu-siemens.com) said:=20
|> > This is the source of the endian-patch that makes ReiserFS work
|> > on IA64 (although originally developed for PPC).
|> >=20
|> > http://penguinppc.org/~jeffm/
|>=20
|> Why does an *endian* patch make reiserfs work on ia64, when
|> ia64 is little endian like x86?

The patch not only contains endian fixes, but the ia64 fixes were folded
into it.  It's just that the patch is now misnamed....

Andreas.

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