On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:40:00PM +0000, Dominic Sweetman wrote: > Dynamic endianness on a per-thread basis would require fantasy > hardware which operates differently from the way MIPS chips do... I used the term thread as the c0_status register which contains the RE bit is per process. Keeping it a per mm thing would require more effort for no good reason. Anyway, inside the Linux kernel threads and processes are basically the same thing. Ralf