#1 aalib linux output driver endianess...

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I think the linux output driver (aalinux.c) is broken
on big-endian machines, where you should write the
attribute/character pair is in native endianity to
the /dev/vcsa device (see
linux/drivers/char/vc_screen.c).

I tested the patch on my hppa 715/64 big-endian
machine where this linux-driver now works correctly,
but didn't tested any other ones.
Furthermore the following patch only covers i386 and
hppa machines and the correctest solution would be to
add a endianess-test to configure.in and use this
result instead.

For the tests I used "bb -driver linux".

Any feedback welcome,

Helge

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