On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > has anyone else ever needed to do this? or is this some weird, > one-off hack that perhaps applies *only* to some bizarre feature of > this board? My guess isthat the peripherals attached to the internal bus only undestand little endian, and the bus doesn't do byte swaps when the core isn't configured for LE. I.e. the BE feature is only implemented in the mips core and the rest was designed for LE only. Manuel