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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 32/43] lguest: Virtio interface
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:00:07 +0200
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On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
> That being the case, why not just use network byte order (big endian)?

PCI hardware is by convention little-endian, so I'd vote for that, but
it doesn't really matter as long as it's fixed endian.

The advantage of big-endian would be that it's not what x86 uses, so
endianess bugs are more likely to hit early.

	Arnd <><