Re: Endianness...

[Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>]

nick@snowman.net wrote:
> 
> To the best of my knowledge Big endian is generally the way to run.
>         Nick
> 

BE is better known perhaps because all SGI workstations are BE.  Generally I
found networking systems tend to use BE while consumer electronic devices tend
to use LE (which means there are probably more MIPS CPUs running in LE.)

So far I have not found much difference in terms of endianess, although
occassionaly you have to IO swap in drivers for BE machine.

Jun

> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> 
> > What's the preferred endianness for Linux-MIPS?  I can't really go
> > into why I'm asking (sensitive NDA information), but I'm basically
> > faced with a group that wants to work in LE.  However, my
> > understanding was that Linux-MIPS generally ran BE.
> >
> > Or can it be built either way?  I know OpenBSD runs LE.... not like
> > that means anything to this group, tho.
> >
> > Matt Dharm
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