Re: Why is byteorder removed from /proc/cpuinfo?

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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:40:00PM +0000, Dominic Sweetman wrote:

>    Dynamic endianness on a per-thread basis would require fantasy
>    hardware which operates differently from the way MIPS chips do...

I used the term thread as the c0_status register which contains the RE
bit is per process.  Keeping it a per mm thing would require more effort
for no good reason.  Anyway, inside the Linux kernel threads and processes
are basically the same thing.

  Ralf

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