From owner-freebsd-ppc Sun Jun 10 10:14: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6514137B401 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 10:14:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keichii@iteration.net) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0DF8E59455; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 12:14:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 12:14:02 -0500 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: [keichii@iteration.net: Re: FreeBSD/powerpc commit candidate for review] Message-ID: <20010610121402.A11425@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 05:28:12PM -0700, David O'Brien scribbled: | On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 05:14:35PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: | > Raises an interesting question about Linux compatibility then... | | The suggestion was to run little endian until some form of multiuser, and | then fixing the endian issues. Ie, to seperate the two issues. So, in other words, for now, on boot, we set CPU to little-endian? I aon't think we can attempt to even do MacOS X compat, but Matt did raise an important issue...Do we plan to fix this in the future? -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@iteration.net | keichii@freebsd.org | | http://iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message