From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g26JiQ627919 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:44:26 -0800 Received: from mail.ivivity.com ([64.238.111.99]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g26JiL927916 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:44:21 -0800 Received: from [192.168.1.161] (192.168.1.161 [192.168.1.161]) by mail.ivivity.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 107NP32Q; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:44:20 -0500 Subject: Re: Questions? From: Marc Karasek To: sjhill@cotw.com Cc: Linux MIPS In-Reply-To: <3C865DF6.FFBE3AB@cotw.com> References: <1015435541.3714.33.camel@MCK_Linux> <3C865DF6.FFBE3AB@cotw.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 06 Mar 2002 13:43:25 -0500 Message-Id: <1015440234.19618.37.camel@MCK_Linux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk No, I have been involved with too many sorties in the war already. I was just asking if there was any issues with one side or the other from a purely technical aspect. On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 13:20, Steven J. Hill wrote: > Marc Karasek wrote: > > > > How many of you are involved with embedded linux development using a > > MIPS processor? > > > A fair number of us. Over a hundred easily. > > > What endianess have you chosen for your project and why? > > > You don't really want to start this holy war, do you? That aside, > usually big endian is more useful in applications moving networking > type traffic or a fair amount of graphics processing. Little endian > is handy if you are porting applications from Windows or a lot of > your software is written in little endian. > > That's my $.02. > > -Steve > > -- > Steven J. Hill - Embedded SW Engineer -- /************************* Marc Karasek Sr. Firmware Engineer iVivity Inc. marc_karasek@ivivity.com 678.990.1550 x238 678.990.1551 Fax *************************/