add endianness check to spkmodem-recv

a bit dirty. should handle this at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/util/spkmodem_recv/spkmodem-recv.c b/util/spkmodem_recv/spkmodem-recv.c
index db7454ca..f0e8db16 100644
--- a/util/spkmodem_recv/spkmodem-recv.c
+++ b/util/spkmodem_recv/spkmodem-recv.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * and decodes them. This is a special type of interface provided
  * by coreboot and GRUB, for computers that lack serial ports.
  *
- * Usage example:
+ * Usage example (NOTE: little endian!):
  * parec --channels=1 --rate=48000 --format=s16le | ./spkmodem-recv
  *
  * Originally provided by GNU GRUB, this version is a heavily
@@ -51,6 +51,13 @@
 
 #define READ_BUF 4096
 
+/* TODO: handle this at runtime instead (bswap) */
+#if defined(__BYTE_ORDER__)
+#if __BYTE_ORDER__ == __ORDER_BIG_ENDIAN__
+#error "spkmodem-recv requires little-endian samples"
+#endif
+#endif
+
 struct decoder_state {
 	signed short frame[MAX_SAMPLES];
 	unsigned char pulse[MAX_SAMPLES];