"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > "el" stands for "little endian", which means that there are two ports > > for MIPS processors out there, DEC station are little endian and SGI > > machines are big endian, iirc. > > Ah, ok...yeah, makes sense. Are the little endian processors in the > DECstations also 64-bit?
No, they have R3000-series CPUs which are 32-bit only. The Jazz boxes are little-endian R4000-series, but they are also 32-bit machines. > If so, I'm wondering if I can cross-compile from > Alpha (which is also little-endian) or from a big endian MIPS. You can cross compile from anything so long as there aren't bugs in binutils preventing you from doing so :-) > Once I get ahold of it, I'll know more. I've been trying to talk my dad > into giving me this machine for years and he's now coming around :-) He > knows nothing about the details of the hardware, so I'll have to wait to > see the machine before knowing for sure it's an Indy and not a Challenge > server or something... The Challenge S is supposed to be essentially the same as the Indy and therefore supported. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.
