On 2007-05-05 09:46 +0200, Wolf-Rüdiger Jürgens wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I see that the Debian NSLU2 is little-endian but many other Arm boards > using Big-endian. (Arcom, Snapgear ...).
It's more complicated than that. Some CPUs/boards can run big or little endian - switched in either software or hardware. The NSLU2 runs big-endian as supplied, and there is unoffical debian big-endian support for it. Most hardware runs little-endian except for some network appliance stuff which tends to be big-endian. > What is the reason for using Little/Big Endian? The main thing in favour of big-endian is that it matches ethernet packet ordering so running hte whole system the same way saves a lot of endian-swapping. It's still reasonable to consider little-endian as 'standard' for arm, although this is less true than it was a few years back. Wookey -- Principal hats: Balloonz - Toby Churchill - Aleph One - Debian http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
