On Thursday 22 March 2007 01:11, Dan Weaver wrote: > Context: > The new Multiboot specification uses the term Native Endianess to imply > that big endian processors can load big endian objects and little endian > processors can load little endian objects. > > Ambiguity: > The Power PC is considered a Big Endian machine but can be booted in little > endian mode. The term Native is vague. > > Objective: > Define a tern or definition that clearly states the ability of the boot > loader.
Right. Rather than going to define a one-fit-into-all rule, I prefer to describe this: The native endianess _must_ be defined in every architecture-specific section explicitly. Probably this is necessary for natural address size, etc. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
