RFC: Host-endian device tree format
Nicolas Pitre
nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Thu Jan 20 03:05:48 EST 2011
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Dave Martin wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> >> > The dtb isn't so much bigendian as it is network byte order.
> >>
> >> (For me, "network byte order" is a euphemism ... <insert
> >> unconstructive rant here>)
> >
> > I concur.
>
> meh. it's all about conventions. When talking about external data, it
> is far more important for everyone to agree on the same representation
> than it is to tailor to each platforms preferences.
Exactly what I said, using different words.
> That said, rant
> away! I love a good tangent.
The actual problem is not that DT chose to use big endian ordering, but
rather that BE ordering was invented in the first place. ;-)
Nicolas
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