Re: GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image

[Mark H Weaver]

ng0 <address@hidden> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès transcribed 5.2K bytes:
>> Anyway, I think we should polish and commit real soon.  :-)  Perhaps we
>> can add a note about endianness and assume little endian for now.
>
> Excuse me if I didn't pay much attention to the thread, I just flipped
> through all of it. Isn't that (little endian) the most common assumption
> most operation system have? I know that Gentoo defaults to little endian.
>
> https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/search?q=big-endian
>
> And we don't support SuperH or similar Big Endian hardware. Or am I
> thinking about different reasons why the endianness here matters?

We should keep the door open to adding support for big-endian systems in
the future.  That job will be made more difficult if we incorporate code
that assumes little-endian.  Let's please strive for portability.

      Mark