Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:01:23 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> 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: <199808272201.PAA00731@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Thu, 27 Aug 1998 13:59:04 -0600 Warner Losh <imp@village.org> wrote: > 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 > at board design time[**]), but no operating system seems to have > successfully taken advantage of this[*]. The Alpha can be wired big-endian, but it requires custom PALcode, etc. The Cray T3 was like this. PowerPCs are also bi-endian, run-time switchable. The PA-RISC (at least the version in those cute little HP 9000/712s) is also bi-endian. Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 650 940 5942 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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