Linux 7.4 Removing Its Broken & Rarely Touched Code For ARM64 Big Endian
This likely won't really affect anyone, and is a good thing. Hopefully it helps speed up arm development further without this code getting in the way.
Endian affects the order that memory is used basically
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Removes-ARM64-BEOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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That's too basic.
If you have a piece of data that takes more than a single byte then you have to choose and order for the bytes. For a 16bit int do you put the "big" byte (representing the part above 255) first or second? Writing decimal numbers we put the big digits first, but processors usually (but not always, like here) put the smaller bytes first (to the left, or at smaller addresses). That's it.