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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:25:25 -0500
From:      Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        marcel@xcllnt.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 64 bit endian routines
Message-ID:  <20030228082525.H93968@espresso.bsdmike.org>
In-Reply-To: <200302280445.h1S4jifs099792@freefall.freebsd.org>; from njl@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:45:44PM -0800
References:  <20030228041849.GB813@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <200302280445.h1S4jifs099792@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Nate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Both scsi and geom implement unaligned access functions that perform byte
> ordering.  I never intended to supplant them with __bswap*().  What I want
> is for machine/endian.h to have functions that provide 16-64 bit endian
> conversions in both aligned and unaligned access forms.  After these functions
> are there, I'd like us to unify use of them and remove driver-private
> versions.

Sounds good, though <sys/endian.h> would be more appropriate unless
they're MD.

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

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