From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mark Douglas <mdouglas@redhat.com>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com>, sid@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: endian attribute: setting or register?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 08:35:00 -0000
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X-SW-Source: 2001-q2/msg00024.html

wouldn't it make more sense just to read the configuration reg that identifies
the endianess and then behave appropriately?
Mark

"Frank Ch. Eigler" wrote:

> Hi -
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:49:03PM +1000, Ben Elliston wrote:
> : The current base cpu classes include an "endian" attribute -- it's
> : currently added as a "register" type attribute.  Should it be a
> : "setting" instead?
>
> Yes and no: some CPUs can switch endianness on the fly.
>
> : [...] by changing it, we save valuable real estate in
> : tksm's gui for the multitide of physical cpu registers
> : that may be listed.  [...]
>
> tksm should be smarter about the layout of the attribute list windows.
>
> - FChE
>
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