On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:20:14PM +0100, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: | |As I said above: it depends on the hardware. There is even hardware (ARM, in |particular) which can run in little- or big-endian mode, depending on how it |is initialized.
If I recall correctly some of the MIPS chips had/ve an endian selector bit on each page table entry in the MMU. The idea was to map each of the I/O devices through the MMU and let that bit help in talking to the hardware (i.e. Intel peripherals expecting little endian and motorola chips wanting the opposite.) E. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
