From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f42KsKP31465 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 2 May 2001 13:54:20 -0700 Received: from hermes.mvista.com (gateway-1237.mvista.com [12.44.186.158]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f42KsKF31461 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 13:54:20 -0700 Received: from mvista.com (IDENT:jsun@orion.mvista.com [10.0.0.75]) by hermes.mvista.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f42KrV032684; Wed, 2 May 2001 13:53:31 -0700 Message-ID: <3AF0724B.D74D9AF9@mvista.com> Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 13:47:07 -0700 From: Jun Sun X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nick@snowman.net CC: Matthew Dharm , Linux-MIPS Subject: Re: Endianness... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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 > > > > -- > > Matthew D. Dharm Senior Software Designer > > Momentum Computer Inc. 1815 Aston Ave. Suite 107 > > (760) 431-8663 X-115 Carlsbad, CA 92008-7310 > > Momentum Works For You www.momenco.com > >