Re: Why is byteorder removed from /proc/cpuinfo?

["H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:35:06AM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> The byteorder field is emoved from /proc/cpuinfo in the current 2.4
> kernel in CVS. It breaks config.guess used by all the GNU softwares.
> 
> 

Here is a patch.

H.J.
----
--- arch/mips/kernel/proc.c.endian      Wed Dec  5 08:02:53 2001
+++ arch/mips/kernel/proc.c     Thu Dec  6 09:41:35 2001
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ static int show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file 
                                    mips_cpu.cputype : CPU_UNKNOWN],
                                   (version >> 4) & 0x0f, version & 0x0f,
                                   (fp_vers >> 4) & 0x0f, fp_vers & 0x0f);
+#if __BIG_ENDIAN
+       seq_printf(m, "byteorder\t\t: big endian\n");
+#endif
+#if __LITTLE_ENDIAN
+       seq_printf(m, "byteorder\t\t: little endian\n");
+#endif
        seq_printf(m, "BogoMIPS\t\t: %lu.%02lu\n",
                      (loops_per_jiffy + 2500) / (500000/HZ),
                      ((loops_per_jiffy + 2500) / (5000/HZ)) % 100);