From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Aug 27 21:38:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA19582 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 21:38:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA19534 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 21:38:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id WAA06949; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:37:06 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199808280437.WAA06949@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Alpha. Which endian? In-Reply-To: <199808272211.QAA11225@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Aug 27, 98 04:11:31 pm" To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:37:06 -0600 (MDT) Cc: mestery@winternet.com, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Warner Losh wrote... > In message Kyle Mestery writes: > : 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.:) > > Ken Murphey also reminded me that PowerPC does this. ^^^^^^^ Heh. Close, but not quite. :) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message