From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3AE4E93E.AC7C788C@mvista.com> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:47:26 -0400 From: Dan Malek MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cort Dougan Cc: Alexandre.Nikolaev@matrox.com, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: ppc little-endian port References: <3AE47B3C.8DF8F330@matrox.com> <20010423181550.F13368@ftsoj.fsmlabs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Cort Dougan wrote: > > Why? Yeah, we really don't care about little-endian. Like I always say, getting a kernel built and booted is the easy part. The entire world runs big endian tools, libraries and applications. Making all of that work is a task no one is going to tackle. While refreshing my PowerPC history the other day, I found a UISA book from 1991.....The Little-Endian Byte Ordering chapter introduction has this to say: It is computed that eleven Thousand Persons have, at several Times, suffered Death, rather than submit to break their Eggs at the smaller End. Many hundred large Volumes have been published upon this Controversy... Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Travels" Later in the text it states "There are 24 ways to specify the ordering of four bytes withing a word, but only two of these orderings are sensible." I contend there is only one sensible ordering, and we are already using it......... -- Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/