> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:29:38 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>

> This is a great idea, except for the hardware that is wired contrarily.
> I'm glad I don't have to deal with any of those strange ISA bridges in
> other 68K-based systems. :-)

Not only ISA bridges on big-endian processors present this problem.
Look at the Sun "ie" board (Intel Ethernet on VME).  It is a 16-bit
VME board with its VME interface hard-wired to do byte swaps.  This
allows the CPU to transfer the packet payloads without swapping, but
also implies that all the i82586 data structures appear byte-swapped!

I'd be interested to hear if/how bus.h should deal with this...
The VME bus has no role in the swapping.  The "bus" that does the
swapping is the on-board wiring on the Sun "ie" board.  I presume
that means knowledge of this belongs in the "ie" driver only.

Gordon