Linux to Solaris development?

Alan Dayley plug-devel@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Tue Feb 12 22:35:02 2002


This is good news.  I suspected as much.

About the endianness: Is the endianness the same on Solaris x86 and SPARC?

Alan

On Tuesday 12 February 2002 10:01 pm, you wrote:
> Alan,
>
> C code is C code.  You only need create a driver for the SCSI peripheral if
> the default devices are not sufficient for your needs.  Obviously, the
> kernel functions used in the low-level driver code are going to be platform
> dependent, but everything above it should be independent code.  The only
> "weirdness" that can reasonably happen is related to the endianness
> differences between the Solaris and x86 architectures.  If  you start your
> application knowing this, you shouldn't have any problems.
>
> Take Care.
>
> Rob!