One the 405 processors, with the endian bit set, the data is will be
true little endian.
Chip
Holger Bettag wrote:
Mark Salisbury [off-list ref] writes:
[... linux in ppc little endian mode ...]
quoted
well, this is in the context of a multi-CPU type (x86/ppc, sparc/ppc,
ppc/ppc, mips/ppc) shared memory multicomputer.
when dealing w/ direct mapped, shared memory, uniformity of endian-ness
makes many multicomputer problems easier to solve.(not to mention easier
for the customer to program...)
You are aware that a PPC in little endian mode is merely tricking with the
low order address bits, but does not actually lay out its data in a little
endian fashion in physical memory?
Holger
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