On 03/30/10 08:25 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Garrett D'Amore wrote:
I'd guess that outside of certain code dealing with MS filesystems, and
device drivers dealing with little-endian registers, there is probably
little other use of little-endian data on SPARC systems.
The X11 protocol is defined as having the client send native-endian and the
server swap if needed, so we do byteswapping on the SPARC when an x86 X client
connects to a SPARC X server, and of course, a bunch of graphics cards fall
into the device drivers category you noted before.
Good point. However, I expect that there are few people using X servers
on SPARC this way anymore. The other situation, where the server runs
on a PC, is probably far more common.
The exception may be Sun Ray servers used on Niagra systems. But even
those cases, I suspect that the display runs only local apps, or apps
that are gateway-ed via RDP or some other bridging technology besides X11.
-- Garrett
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