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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:42:32 -0700
From: mferrell@mvista.com
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Subject: Re: RPX Classic/Lite and byte ordering
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I was talking with some people who work with the Embeded Planet RPX stuff a=
nd
apparently a couple of chips on the system are wired backwards.  The
developers could remember "exacly" which models they ran across that where
wired this way, but he remembered that it only showed up when dealing with
double words.  Dunno if that helps.

As far as the PPC stuff, a few can be little endian, but under linux they a=
re
all big endian so far.


On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:16:11AM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> Nope.  A powerpc cross compiler *should* produce *exactly* the same code=
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> I've had a look at my spec file.  Try the -mbig-endian (or -mbig) for=20
> big endian.  Try -mlittle-endian (or -mlittle) for little endian.  I=20
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> than -mbig or -mlittle.
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> My spec file has the following:
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> *multilib_defaults:
> mbig mcall-linux
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> *cpp_endian_default:
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> *cc1_endian_default:
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> Regards,
> Brendan Simon.
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> Tim Bowman wrote:
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> > Would cross-compiling the kernel on an x86 produce different ordering
> > than compiling natively on a PowerPC (which is how I am building it)?=
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> > Maybe I need to build it on an x86?
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Mark Ferrell <mferrell@mvista.com>
Monta Vista Software Inc. <http://www.mvista.com>

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