The 'host_bigendian' variable (and functions relying on it like ntohl/htonl) requires host detection by calling static which_endian() first -- which may be easily forgotten by developers. It's now a public function in common.c and doesn't need initialization anymore. Change-Id: I13dabd1ad15d2d6657137d29138e0878040cb205 Signed-off-by: Hung-Te Lin <hungte@chromium.org> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/2199 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>