On Tue 05 Dec, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 05:30:39PM -0800, Chagas, Jason wrote:
> > It may not be that simple. In most cases, the kernel should run in Big
> > Endian mode on the IXP1200.
> As far as I know there is no real need to go big endian on te IXP1200,
> but the advantage is that it might be easier for networking (and that's
> what the IXP1200 is meant for).
Yes, I wonder whether this is really necessary - once these boards are
available I'm sure people will be able to pronounce on the relative speeds in
big and little-endian modes.
> Anyway, whatever the original poster wants to do, he should indeed
> contact David or Uday because in that way he'll avoid doing double
> work.
Indeed. I put up the big-endian HOWTO david posted to this list a while back.
You can read it here:
http://www.aleph1.co.uk/armlinux/devboards/bigendian.html
This was april 2000, so some stuff may have changed since then...
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