Hi, > > That would require an additional data copy and a double byteswap on machines > > which are not that fast in first place... > > So use the blitter ;) > > At this point the future is not Commode Amiga or Atari TT and we risk > mess in core code for obscure platforms ? The Amiga isn't affected by this. Only Falcon and Q40 (Atari) are. Sorry for the mess in core code - ist there any other way for only driveid and packet data getting swapped? And can we actually use the device mapper to byte-swap the root partition? Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html