[OT] Prefered Endianess for ixp4xx Processors

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* [OT] Prefered Endianess for ixp4xx Processors
@ 2009-02-26  4:37 Hans Henry von Tresckow
  2009-02-26 19:56 ` Khem Raj
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From: Hans Henry von Tresckow @ 2009-02-26  4:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: oe-devel

Hi,
Sorry if this is way off topic, but I was wondering if there are any
advantages running an ixp4xx in either BE or LE mode

-- 
Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)
Fran Lebowitz  - "You're only has good as your last haircut."



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* Re: [OT] Prefered Endianess for ixp4xx Processors
  2009-02-26  4:37 [OT] Prefered Endianess for ixp4xx Processors Hans Henry von Tresckow
@ 2009-02-26 19:56 ` Khem Raj
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From: Khem Raj @ 2009-02-26 19:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: openembedded-devel

On (25/02/09 20:37), Hans Henry von Tresckow wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry if this is way off topic, but I was wondering if there are any
> advantages running an ixp4xx in either BE or LE mode

Depends on your needs. If you are looking for network processors then
the incoming data could be big endian format so if you use in BE mode
you avoid swapping. 

In LE machine you can access least signicant bits with same address and on
BE machine you have immediate access to sign bit. etc etc.

-Khem

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