From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linas@austin.ibm.com Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:13:50 -0600 To: valvoline Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM94306 Message-ID: <20040114181350.B40506@forte.austin.ibm.com> References: <20040114161107.GM2658@adapter.n0skillz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20040114161107.GM2658@adapter.n0skillz.org>; from valvoline@vrlteam.org on Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:11:07PM +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:11:07PM +0100, valvoline wrote: > of drivers are required? i think that simple win32-drivers cannot work > properly in a different architecture with different *endian. totally irrelevent and off-topic, but ... the ppc can (or used to be able to) switch endianess dynamically. To be more correct, it can run some user-space code that was little endian, by having the kernel set the appropriate bit in the MSR before it ran the app. I have no idea is the linux kernel saves/restores this bit(s), or if this is still supported on the newest processors. --linas ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/