> Hola, most modern ARM cpu's support big endian, that is not the point. > Question is how many an big endian platforms exists, and this is not so > popular, because even if you switch the cpu to big endian, the underlying > hardware remains little endian (with the cpu doing the conversion). This > means that driver code etc. suddenly needs to care about endian > conversions. however some hardware is wired up for big endian (the linksys NSLU2 springs to mind) and hence is a pain to get little endian linux running on (i belive the network now works in little endian mode but the front panel lights are still broken)
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