[PATCH 04/11] of/flattree: eliminate cell_t typedef

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Nov 26 18:06:11 EST 2009


On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 23:28 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message:
> <fa686aa40911252005o2db85dfk3d9acc61c12ca5e5 at mail.gmail.com>
>             Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> writes:
> : Word from Mitch is the device tree is network byte order.  period.
> 
> OpenFirmware defines the order to be big endian always, even on little
> endian processors.

Right, that's the only sane way to do it, I just didn't remember off
hand what was said in the OF spec :-)

Cheers,
Ben.




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