On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. ;-)
hahahahaha g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
