On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:45:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> Please don't do it this way.
> 
> It would be *much* better to just standardize on one endianness, and be 
> done with it. That way there are no config options, no confusion, and the 
> code is smaller, simpler, and faster. Because nn unconditional byte swap 
> is generally faster than a conditional non-byte-swap!
> 
> So can you please just make it little-endian? 
> 
> There can't be that many big-endian machines that really care about old 
> cramfs images..

Actually there are as lots of initrd are cramfs.  This means you'd need
to update mkcramfs all big endian machines out there.
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