Michael-Luke Jones wrote: > On 8 May 2007, at 09:48, Alexey Zaytsev wrote: > >> I was always curious, why do people want to run ixp4xx in LE mode? What >> are the benefits that overweight the obvious performance degradation? > > Debian. > http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/
And also out-of-kernel drivers for things like webcams, which have been naively written for x86 little endian and have no concept of endian neutrality. In some cases it's just easier to run LE instead of fighting with the driver code. BTW, for the consumer-level IXP42x devices (like the NSLU2) the performance difference is *completely* overwhelmed by slowness in the rest of the system. -- Rod - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
