On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:45:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Please don't do it this way. > > It would be *much* better to just standardize on one endianness, and be > done with it. That way there are no config options, no confusion, and the > code is smaller, simpler, and faster. Because nn unconditional byte swap > is generally faster than a conditional non-byte-swap! > > So can you please just make it little-endian? > > There can't be that many big-endian machines that really care about old > cramfs images..
Actually there are as lots of initrd are cramfs. This means you'd need to update mkcramfs all big endian machines out there. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
