Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but the gist is that IBM has > traditionally bit 0 for MSB and x for LSB. It's a pain to work with: > for one, bits in the same place in a word (say, control register) are > renumbered in 32 vs 64.
I wasn't aware of that, but it doesn't really change the bit order, only bit names (numbers actually). Extremely weird BTW but I guess these things weren't that obvious to everyone some 50 years ago. > And I've worked on at least one piece of > hardware in which the hardware designer had a brain-fart and first board > had bit 0 on the CPU wired to bit 0 on the northbridge - should have > been 31 -> 0, 30 -> 1, etc... I suspect the board wasn't able to run any OS, was it? :-) Would make a real example of the different order of bits, though. -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
