On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 02:06:24PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > It's not so unusual anymore since intel introduced the IXP series > of chips which come with mostly BE oriented reference designs.
The nslu2 itself comes with an ixp4xx CPU, but the armeb port is also used on a number of ixp2000 boards. Having a big-endian arm distro to run on the ixp2000 was an important reason for developing this port. As to why I chose armeb instead of armbe, partially because of the -EB/-EL thing, partially because the arch name also has the endianity at the end (armv4b, armv4l, armv5teb, armv5tel), partially because when I first started porting a distro to armeb, a number of tools (binutils? I can't remember now.) did accept arm*b-*-* as target string but didn't accept armbe-*-*. The latter might have changed in the meanwhile, but the original decision to use armeb instead of armbe was made over two years ago. cheers, Lennert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]