Subject: Big/Little endian conversion in FS
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/15/1997 20:26:14
Hi all,
I'd like to add bytes-swapping support to FFS, so that one can mount
a filesystem created with the other endianness (configurable with an
option). I can see 2 way to decide if we need byte swapping or not:
 - with a mount option,
 - autodetect, based on the magic number.

I prefer the second one.

In order to achieve this, I need byte swapping functions swap16(), swap32() and
swap64(). I think I'll implement theses in C in libkern, and peoples who
know about assembly can write optimised versions for a specific architecture.

Any comments about this ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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