From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image
Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 02:26:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fugmjw0u.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170502125302.kczt4pflooesikx4@abyayala> (ng0's message of "Tue, 2 May 2017 12:53:02 +0000")
ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:
> Ludovic Courtès transcribed 5.2K bytes:
>> Anyway, I think we should polish and commit real soon. :-) Perhaps we
>> can add a note about endianness and assume little endian for now.
>
> Excuse me if I didn't pay much attention to the thread, I just flipped
> through all of it. Isn't that (little endian) the most common assumption
> most operation system have? I know that Gentoo defaults to little endian.
>
> https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/search?q=big-endian
>
> And we don't support SuperH or similar Big Endian hardware. Or am I
> thinking about different reasons why the endianness here matters?
We should keep the door open to adding support for big-endian systems in
the future. That job will be made more difficult if we incorporate code
that assumes little-endian. Let's please strive for portability.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-03 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-18 14:17 GuixSD on servers [Fwd: [rtracker.1984.is #131647] A question about VServer system specific requirements] ng0
2017-04-18 15:16 ` Chris Marusich
2017-04-19 20:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-23 4:52 ` Chris Marusich
2017-04-24 5:11 ` GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image (was: Re: GuixSD on servers [Fwd: [rtracker.1984.is #131647] A question about VServer system specific requirements]) Chris Marusich
2017-04-27 13:42 ` GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-27 17:08 ` GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image (was: Re: GuixSD on servers [Fwd: [rtracker.1984.is #131647] A question about VServer system specific requirements]) Danny Milosavljevic
2017-04-27 20:00 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-04-28 8:18 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-02 12:37 ` GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-02 12:53 ` ng0
2017-05-03 6:26 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2017-05-02 20:09 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-02 21:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-07 19:37 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-08 14:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-11 23:30 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-12 15:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-14 21:25 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-16 8:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-06 9:35 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-06-08 12:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-02 20:12 ` Danny Milosavljevic
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