On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Grant Likely wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Dave Martin wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Grant Likely <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > The dtb isn't so much bigendian as it is network byte order. > >> > >> (For me, "network byte order" is a euphemism ... <insert > >> unconstructive rant here>) > > > > I concur. > > meh. it's all about conventions. When talking about external data, it > is far more important for everyone to agree on the same representation > than it is to tailor to each platforms preferences.
Exactly what I said, using different words. > That said, rant > away! I love a good tangent. The actual problem is not that DT chose to use big endian ordering, but rather that BE ordering was invented in the first place. ;-) Nicolas _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
