Heiko Wundram (Beenic) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alpha is little endian. i had alpha 21066 running linux. > > Not true. Alpha is big- or little-endian (so, it's bi-endian),
Alpha is little-endian in practice. I've never heard of DEC--or anybody else for that matter--building a big-endian alpha. Note that DEC's previous CPU architecture, the VAX, was also little-endian. > depending on how it's booted, ... on how _the CPU_ is booted, yes. By the time you are running firmware and thinking of booting an operating system, it's much too late. > and IIRC the Windows NT version running on Alpha used the > big-endian mode of the CPU. But I might be mistaken. I think you are mistaken. The ARC MIPS platform, which Windows NT originally was written for, was also little-endian. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
