nick@snowman.net wrote: > > To the best of my knowledge Big endian is generally the way to run. > Nick > BE is better known perhaps because all SGI workstations are BE. Generally I found networking systems tend to use BE while consumer electronic devices tend to use LE (which means there are probably more MIPS CPUs running in LE.) So far I have not found much difference in terms of endianess, although occassionaly you have to IO swap in drivers for BE machine. Jun > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > What's the preferred endianness for Linux-MIPS? I can't really go > > into why I'm asking (sensitive NDA information), but I'm basically > > faced with a group that wants to work in LE. However, my > > understanding was that Linux-MIPS generally ran BE. > > > > Or can it be built either way? I know OpenBSD runs LE.... not like > > that means anything to this group, tho. > > > > Matt Dharm > > > > -- > > Matthew D. Dharm Senior Software Designer > > Momentum Computer Inc. 1815 Aston Ave. Suite 107 > > (760) 431-8663 X-115 Carlsbad, CA 92008-7310 > > Momentum Works For You www.momenco.com > >
