Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: MACHINE_ARCH WRONG ON MIPS PLATFORMS
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mips
Date: 07/23/1998 11:00:49
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:40:41 -0400 (EDT)
Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:
> : BTW, powerpc is also bi-endian architecture. What do they do ?
>
> IIRC, all the NetBSD powerpc architectures are big-endian.
And, AFAIK, the systems where little-endian OSs run on PowerPC (e.g. Solaris,
when it existed for PowerPC), the hardware was switchable at run-time.
Most PowerPC systems are either BE or switchable to BE, I think.
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