On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:22:16PM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Ben Harris wrote:
> 
> : If nothing else, it probably means that a merged ARM MACHINE_ARCH should
> : probably be called "armel" rather than "arm".
> 
> Actually, "arm" is best mostly because it follows common naming convention
> in many other environments -- most notably the GNU toolchain, which we use.
> 
> "powerpc" vs. "powerpcel" is another such example of this somewhat disjoint
> naming.

I agree, we should follow whatever de-facto-standard naming schemes
exist for differentiating cpus which differ only in endianness.
(the "armel" and "armeb" in my previous message were just examples.)

-Chuck