Re: IBM PPC 405 series little endian?

Mark Salisbury (mbs@mc.com)
Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:08:26 -0400

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:34:21PM +0200, Zehetbauer Thomas wrote:
> > Has someone experimented with running linux in little-endian mode on IBM
> > PowerPC 405 (Walnut) yet?
>
> With the possible exception of the matrox guy, I haven't heard of ANYONE
> running in LE mode on ppc. The second problem is going to be to recompile
> ALL the applications you want and hope they work.

actually, we run ppc 603, 750 and 74xx series ppc's little endian in a PCI
based shared memory multicomputer.

we also run them big-endian in the VME based version.

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