Re: [PATCH] UUID support for UFS

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Robert Millan<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 03:03:34PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>> +  grub_uint32_t uuidhi;
>> +  grub_uint32_t uuidlow;
>> [...]
>> +      grub_sprintf (*uuid, "%08lx%08lx",
>> +                 (unsigned long) grub_le_to_cpu32 (data->sblock.uuidhi),
>> +                 (unsigned long) grub_le_to_cpu32 (data->sblock.uuidlow));
>
> Is this really being interpreted as mixed endian by other programs?
>
Yes. It completely matches the ufsid used by FreeBSD. Actually uuidhi
seems to be creation timestamp and uuidlow just a random number but it
doesn't matter for GRUB.
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