From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: __LITTLE_ENDIAN vs. __LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:57:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <470BCEFC.9060302@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fy0kcec4.fsf@maximus.localdomain>
Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> There is no such thing as bit-order.
Yes, there is. You need to read the article at
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6788. Explains what it means for bits to
be in one order versus another. This is from the perspective of external
devices, not the CPU (which is always consistent with regards to bit order)
--
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-09 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-05 18:27 __LITTLE_ENDIAN vs. __LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD Timur Tabi
2007-10-05 18:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-05 19:35 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-05 19:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-05 19:47 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-05 20:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-05 20:07 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-05 20:34 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-10-05 20:37 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-05 23:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-05 21:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-05 21:06 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-10-05 21:10 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-05 21:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-05 21:32 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-05 23:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-09 17:46 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-10-09 17:56 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-09 18:34 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-10-09 18:50 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-10-09 18:57 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2007-10-09 19:37 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-10-09 19:44 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-09 22:11 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-10-09 19:11 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-09 19:39 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-10-09 21:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-09 22:34 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-10-10 12:05 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
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