Re: RFC: Devices, buses and hotplug

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 7 Jun 1999 17:02:56 +0100 (BST)

> How do you expect to handle say video memory on 24 bit cards where
> it doesn't fill up and use 32 bits per pixel using this scheme on
> big endian machines?
>
> I don't see how the size of a particular datum changes the problem.

Try working in wrongendian 24bit mode for a while Dave, its _horrible_ trying
to get the byte shifting and flipping right for 3 bytes/pixel packed. Thats
hard to do efficiently on ppc

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