Re: Umax 1200S on LinuxPPC R5

David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:52:40 -0700

>>>>> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 19:24:53 -0400, Simon Piette <spiette@generation.net> said:

Simon> Oliver Rauch wrote:
>> I don`t know if SANE is tested on a big endian machine. May be
>> there are problems too. I am not sure if the umax backend is
>> tested on a big endian machine. But if the inquiry command
>> returns with an error the problem is in the sanei/scsi or in the
>> sg or scsi driver.
>>

Simon> This is what I am thinking. This is not the first time we
Simon> (linuxppc users) have that kind of problem with little/big
Simon> endian (eg. sound). I'll check with the Linux PowerPC team
Simon> ...

Note that SANE is reported to work fine on SPARC Solaris, which is
big-endian.

The only endian-issues that I'm aware of is that if you try to scan
with >8 bits/channel across the net-backend and the endianness between
the hosts differ, you'll lose. This is something that's easy to fix,
but I haven't had the chance to implement it yet.

--david

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