[ros-kernel] Different Hardware Architectures

[Mike Nordell]

Michael Rich wrote:

> Actually everything I've read says that the G5/970 CPU has dropped the
> feature that allowed it to run in either big or little endian mode.

This would *force* us to care about both endianness issues and word-sizes. I
see this as a good thing. For user-mode code it might not be very noticable,
but for drivers... :-)

/Mike - why do I always get a kick out of a challenge?