On 01/20/2015 21:45, Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 01/20/2015 18:05, David Daney wrote: >> On 01/19/2015 01:02 AM, Joshua Kinard wrote: >>> From: Joshua Kinard <kumba@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> This is a small patch to display the CPU byteorder that the kernel was compiled >>> with in /proc/cpuinfo. >> >> What would use this? Or in other words, why is this needed? > > It was a patch I started including years ago in Gentoo's mips-sources, and just > never thought much about. I know it was submitted several times in the past, > but I can't recall what, if any objection was ever made. No harm in sending it > in again... Clarification, submitted several times in the past by others. I think I sent it in once prior, but never got review or feedback. >> Userspace C code doesn't need this as it has its own standard ways of >> determining endianness. >> >> If you need to know as a user you can do: >> >> readelf -h /bin/sh | grep Data | cut -d, -f2 > > This would only tell you the endianness of the userland binary, not of the > kernel. While they should be one and the same (otherwise, you're not going to > get very far anyways), they are, technically, distinctly different properties. > > --J >
