It also depends on which new drivers you expect to use and thus need to port from the x86 world. I can certainly tell you that we always start off with LE for driver porting, for obvious reasons (x86, PCI), and then go BE after that. /Hartvig Marc Karasek writes: > > No, I have been involved with too many sorties in the war already. I > was just asking if there was any issues with one side or the other from > a purely technical aspect. > > On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 13:20, Steven J. Hill wrote: > > Marc Karasek wrote: > > > > > > How many of you are involved with embedded linux development using a > > > MIPS processor? > > > > > A fair number of us. Over a hundred easily. > > > > > What endianess have you chosen for your project and why? > > > > > You don't really want to start this holy war, do you? That aside, > > usually big endian is more useful in applications moving networking > > type traffic or a fair amount of graphics processing. Little endian > > is handy if you are porting applications from Windows or a lot of > > your software is written in little endian. > > > > That's my $.02. > > > > -Steve > > > > -- > > Steven J. Hill - Embedded SW Engineer > -- > /************************* > Marc Karasek > Sr. Firmware Engineer > iVivity Inc. > marc_karasek@ivivity.com > 678.990.1550 x238 > 678.990.1551 Fax > *************************/
