From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Prefered Endianess for ixp4xx Processors
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:56:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090226195649.GA26281@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a7f8874a0902252037h6177f2efu1be098779fe87a69@mail.gmail.com>
On (25/02/09 20:37), Hans Henry von Tresckow wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry if this is way off topic, but I was wondering if there are any
> advantages running an ixp4xx in either BE or LE mode
Depends on your needs. If you are looking for network processors then
the incoming data could be big endian format so if you use in BE mode
you avoid swapping.
In LE machine you can access least signicant bits with same address and on
BE machine you have immediate access to sign bit. etc etc.
-Khem
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2009-02-26 4:37 [OT] Prefered Endianess for ixp4xx Processors Hans Henry von Tresckow
2009-02-26 19:56 ` Khem Raj [this message]
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