On Sun, 5 Feb 2017, Matt Turner wrote: > > I don't think it is other than for PPC. If you're not variable endian > > (which is only PPC to date), then you should know a priori what endian > > you are from the #defines in userspace. > > MIPS as well, but it seems strange to require the kernel to tell you > your endianness, when you can easily determine it yourself. Unless > there's something about this I don't understand. Many MIPS processors do have a reverse-endian control bit, which allows a user process to execute in the endianness opposite to the endianness the kernel runs in. The feature has been around since 1991 and the R4000 CPU, however support is unlikely to be ever added to the MIPS/Linux port, due to the complexity required for byte-swapping all the data structures passed in memory between the kernel and the userland. Does the PPC/Linux port actually implement this swapping? Maciej -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
