On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Robert Barnes wrote: > Could someone please drop me a short note explaining the difference between > mips and mipsel?? > > Which is appropriate to my Indy?
MIPS processors are special in that at reset time, they can choose to be either big-endian or little-endian. "mips" is the architecture name if the CPU is used in big-endian mode, "mipsel" is for little-endian. little-endian means that the least significant byte of a word is stored first in memory (at the lower address); big-endian means that the most significant byte is stored first. Your Indy is big endian, so "mips" is the proper architecture for you. Regards, Pontus -- Pontus Lidman, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Software Engineer No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up. Scene: www.dc-s.com | MUD: tyme.envy.com 6969 | irc: irc.quakenet.eu.org
