On 03/20/14 23:06, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote: > On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 22:57 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> Il 20/03/2014 22:14, Marcel Apfelbaum ha scritto: >>> +# All known versions of iasl on BE machines are broken. >>> +# TODO: add detection code once a non-broken version makes an appearance. >>> +if ($iasl -h > /dev/null 2>&1) && >>> + (lscpu | grep "Byte Order" | grep --quiet "Little Endian" ); then >> >> lscpu is not portable. > I am open to suggestions... > I'll try to come up with something else.
The printf and od utilities are portable. You can use printf to print a character string, and use od to group that character string into multibyte integers in the native byte order. Example: X=$(printf '\336\255\276\357' | od -A n -t x4) This sets X to " efbeadde" on little endian, and " deadbeef" on big endian. Laszlo
