Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: MACHINE_ARCH WRONG ON MIPS PLATFORMS
To: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mips
Date: 07/23/1998 11:02:11
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 02:49:31 +0900 (JST)
Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp> wrote:
> It doesn't mean that future NetBSD release does support little-endian
> powerpc.
> If mips should be changed, powerpc should be changed, too.
> There are no official release of powerpc NetBSD, so it is relatively
> easier than mips.
What GNU does for PowerPC is:
powerpc big-endian PowerPC
powerpcle little-endian PowerPC
I think the latter is not very common.
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