On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:35:20PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Yeah, apparently it's cheaper to bootstrap a complete new little endian > platform than to fix portability issues in existing software...
I believe a big reason is that Nvidia cards expect little endian data, and the overhead of converting between the host and the nvidia cards is big enough to matter. power8+ and power9 will have nvlink connections on the CPU for a reason after all. -- Len Sorensen
