Package: cramfs Version: 1.1-6 Severity: wishlist
The cramfstools cteares WRONG ENDIANITY filesystem on the big-endian architectures (i.e. the mips-eb) David Schleef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "According to Linus, big endian cramfs doesn't exist. " http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/07/msg01161.html However, mkcramfs creates big-endin file imeges in the big-endian hosts: big-endian.host$ mkcramfs dir image.cramfs little-endian.host$ mkcramfs dir image.cramfs The "mkcramfs" produces DIFFERENT file images. big-endian.host$ od -ha image.cramfs 0000000 cd28 453d 0010 0000 0000 0500 0000 0000 ( M = E dle nul nul nul nul nul nul enq nul nul nul nul 0000020 6f43 706d 6572 7373 6465 5220 4d4f 5346 C o m p r e s s e d sp R O M F S little-endian.host$ od -ha image.cramfs 0000000 3d45 28cd 5000 0001 0003 0000 0000 0000 E = M ( nul P soh nul etx nul nul nul nul nul nul nul 0000020 6f43 706d 6572 7373 6465 5220 4d4f 5346 C o m p r e s s e d sp R O M F S There are a lot of patches for the linux kernel : http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0202.3/0365.html Access to the constants reworked as : ... #define CRAMFS_32(x) swab32(x) ... if (super.magic != CRAMFS_32(CRAMFS_MAGIC)) Another kernel patches (JFYI): http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2003-August/008471.html http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2001-09/msg00259.html Is it possible to implement endianness-aware cramfs tools like: http://seclists.org/linux-kernel/2001/Dec/0760.html
