endian attribute: setting or register?

Mark Douglas mdouglas@redhat.com
Thu May 31 08:41:00 GMT 2001


Sorry... just trying to "stick with this" conceptually.
Mark

"Frank Ch. Eigler" wrote:

> Hi -
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:39:28AM -0700, Mark Douglas wrote:
> : wouldn't it make more sense just to read the configuration reg that
> : identifies the endianess and then behave appropriately?
>
> Yes, this is how it works for endian-switcheroo architectures.
> In most cases, the desired endianness may be configured at
> sid startup/reset time.  Ben's comment was only about how
> to classify the endianness parameter in the tksm GUI
> (regardless how it was acquired or related to hardware
> control registers).
>
> - FChE
>
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