On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 12:49 +0100, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote: > Dne 15 Březen 2007, 03:55, Hollis Blanchard napsal(a): > > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 09:47 -0800, Daniel Weaver wrote: > > > >> I would like to propose a definition for "Native Endianess" > >> > >> > >> The data has Native Endianess when a 32-bit read will return the > >> correct value without byte swap. > > > > What on earth does that mean? :) "Correct value" according to who? > > > > FYI, some processors (like PowerPC and MIPS) can operate in either > > little- or big-endian mode. > > And on true 64 platforms it will be counterintuitive definition.
I don't know what you mean by this. What is a "true 64 platform", and what does that have to do with endianness? BTW, the context is that Daniel was looking at the multiboot2 draft, which specifies that some data be in "native endianness". I've objected that this is too vague. -Hollis _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
