[systemd-devel] Is the format of hwdb.bin platform independent?

Kay Sievers kay at vrfy.org
Thu May 16 07:49:57 PDT 2013


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Michael Olbrich
<m.olbrich at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> I'm using udev/systemd in embedded scenarios and I don't like generating
> hwdb.bin on the target hardware. So I built a host udevadm to create it. It
> is save to do that? Generating hwdb.bin on x86_64 and using it on ARM seems
> to work, but what about endianness?

The format should be all 64bit LE. We never tested that though, if it
doesn't work we will fix it.

Kay


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