Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 17:08:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Kyle Mestery <mestery@winternet.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Alpha. Which endian? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980827170754.6480A-100000@tundra.winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <199808271959.NAA00801@harmony.village.org>
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On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <35E58E83.446B@cs.strath.ac.uk> Roger Hardiman writes: > : I remember that when the Alpha cpu was designed one of the features > : was the ability to switched to be big-endian or little-endian format > : for a particular operating system. > > No. AFAIK, the alpha has never supported this. The only processor > family on the planet that did this was the MIPS family, and some of > its successors. Some of them even did this at run time (rather than The StrongARM from Intel (formerly DEC) also can run in either endian mode. Unfourtanetly, WRS chose to make their VxWorks port little-endian. Oh well.:) -- Kyle Mestery StorageTek's Storage Networking Group "I'll take what you're willing to give, and I'll teach myself to live, with a walk-on part of a background shot from a movie I'm not in." - Blink 182, "Apple Shampoo" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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